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The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come

Len Brown, NME, 1 September 1987

"MAN THAT is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay" (Anglican Funeral Service).

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