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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

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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
Poor
Give
Right
Giving
Things
Sickness
Couldn
Worst

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