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the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

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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No man was ever ruined from without the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!
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... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
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