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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050507
Author:Mary Blume

Mary Blume
International Herald Tribune
05-07-2005
'Will Sybille make it?" Mrs. Aldous Huxley used to ask her various fortune tellers, concerned about a neighbor in Sanary, on the French Riviera near Toulon. Young Sybille seemed, despite literary ambitions, headed for a wasted life of nightly hijinks, daily dips and looking after a mother addicted to morphine.Sybille did make it, rather late due to circumstances and self-confessed sloth. Her first book, a wittily offbeat account of a trip to Mexico called "A Visit to Don Otavio," didn't come out until 1953, when she was 42. The first of her ...

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