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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
Still
Rock
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Love
Grows
Like
Upon
Lichens
Woman
Nurture
Stills
Soil
Women
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