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If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Peace Activist
Social Activist
Suffragist
Trade Unionist
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