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I'm perfectly miserable but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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And the good fairy said, I won't leave you money or pretty dresses but I will leave you the spirit to seek your fortune from your own efforts.
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...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
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It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
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