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There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Amelia Barr

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