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So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

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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
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Cases
Wish
Found
Always
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Granted
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