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Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Amelia Barr

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Amelia Barr
Autobiographer
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Amelia Barr
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For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
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what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
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