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The very shadows seem to listen.

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Anna Katharine Green
Age: 88 †
Born: 1846
Born: November 11
Died: 1935
Died: April 11
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs
Seems
Shadows
Shadow
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