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The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

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
Girl
Astonishes
Fear
Recklessness
Young
Maid
Made
Matrimony
Maids
Rush
Girls
Single

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