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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Love
Life
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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
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