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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Air
Roving
Spring
Scent
Flower
Sweetness
Perfect
Vague
Earth
Afternoon
Hidden
Flowers
Exhaled
Filled
Scents

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