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youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
Amelia Edith Huddleston
Amelia E. Barr
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the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
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a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.
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