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People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

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Betty Smith
Age: 75 †
Born: 1896
Born: December 15
Died: 1972
Died: January 17
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Brooklyn
New York
Elisabeth Lillian Wehner
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Vivacious
Looking
Formulating
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Resolves
Faces
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Painfully

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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
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'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
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Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it. Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
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