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there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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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
Times
Happens
Anything
May
Even
Surprises
Life
Hoped
Surprise
Happen

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