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Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

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Carolyn Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1862
Born: June 18
Died: 1942
Died: March 26
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Rahway
New Jersey
Carolyn Wells Houghton
Flirtation
Flirting
Envy
Love
Envies

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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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