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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
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
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Takes
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World
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It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.
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[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
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