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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.

Ellen Glasgow

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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
Passes
Hardest
Return
Sense
Nothing
Thing
Impermanence
Returns

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