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…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Misfortune
Misfortunes
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Good
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it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
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