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Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

Elizabeth George Speare

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Elizabeth George Speare
Age: 85 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 21
Died: 1994
Died: November 15
Novelist
Writer
Melrose
Massachusetts
Friends
Meadows
Lying
Flat
Found
Flats
Heart
Crying
Thing
Cry
Way
Hearts
Would
Strange
Break

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