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I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
Doors
Memories
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Life
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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
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