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Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

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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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Women
Overrated
Always
Greatly
Love
Affairs
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