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What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

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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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Belong
Thinking
Fool
People
Saying
Words
Lives
Two
Together
Make
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