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There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

Catherine Marshall

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Catherine Marshall
Age: 68 †
Born: 1914
Born: September 27
Died: 1983
Died: March 18
Author
Novelist
Johnson City
Tennessee
Extreme
Extremes
Feminist
Danger
Quite
Girl
Ends
Always
Unfulfilled

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The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.
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The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.
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