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You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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Bess Streeter Aldrich
Age: 73 †
Born: 1881
Born: February 17
Died: 1954
Died: August 3
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Cedar Falls
Iowa
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Trying
Ideal
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Ideals
Make
Guess
Things
Garden
Like
Dream

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