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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

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Abraham Lincoln
Age: 56 †
Born: 1809
Born: February 12
Died: 1865
Died: April 15
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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
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