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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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