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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.
Betty Smith
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Betty Smith
Age: 75 †
Born: 1896
Born: December 15
Died: 1972
Died: January 17
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Elisabeth Lillian Wehner
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.
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Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
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We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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