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Mary of Egypt lived forty years without seeing anyone

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After a wild youth, she walked into the desert and simply never came back. She survived utterly alone in the brutal wilderness for four decades, becoming the patron saint of aggressively ghosting absolutely everyone.

Mary of Egypt lived forty years without seeing anyone
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