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He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Firsts
First
Passions
Take
Root
Hard
Roots
Love
Deep
Life
Passion
Like
Dies
Nature

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