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A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
Age: 83 †
Born: 1820
Born: February 22
Died: 1904
Died: January 18
Poet
New York City
New York
bovee
C. N. Bovee
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Soil
Women
Charity
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Rock
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Rocks
Even
Grow
Love
Grows
Like
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Nurture

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