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You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
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