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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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
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C. N. Bovee
World
Kindred
Sympathy
Alone
Friends
Home
Without
Country

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