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The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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