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She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

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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
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Object
Always
Grief
Objects
Memories
Struggle
Attended
Face
Trivial
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Pleasant

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