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Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
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
Convenient
Cash
Fame
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Money
Thing
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