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To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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Lizette Woodworth Reese
Age: 79 †
Born: 1856
Born: January 9
Died: 1935
Died: December 17
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Maryland
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