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Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall

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Ratcliffe Hall and Lady

Radcliffe hall spent grandly on the apparatus of death. She donated for a requiem mass in westminster cathedral and installed an altar with a silver crucifix blessed by the pope. george batten's cremated remains were retrieved from woking and put on a shelf so he could be with his wife. Ratcliffe hall then determined to get in touch again with lady. Lady, she assured john, was well and on plain three of heaven. Jesus christ was on plain seven. All her disabilities were gone. John was in no way responsible for her fatal brain hemorrhage. And when she too died, they'd be permanently reunited. Meantime, she should enjoy herself with una

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