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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

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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
Valleys
Thin
Flames
Green
Spring
Running
Valley
Flame

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