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**aged 34, she died of pancreatic cancer.
james baldwin said, ‘it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man’.**
**although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir’s ‘the second sex’ & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant. **
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