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The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

Dorothy Wordsworth

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Dorothy Wordsworth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1771
Born: December 25
Died: 1855
Died: January 25
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Cockermouth
Cumbria
Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth
Seeking
Freest
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Tallest
Female
Slender
Creatures
Graceful
Growing
Observed
Alone
Plants
Always
Retirement
Shaded
Creature
Columbine

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