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What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

Elizabeth George Speare

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Elizabeth George Speare
Age: 85 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 21
Died: 1994
Died: November 15
Novelist
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Melrose
Massachusetts
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