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I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

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
Thinking
Learn
Angels
Often
Hills
Write
Flowers
Beautiful
Mysterious
Feel
Angel
Feels
Lessons
Writing
Flower
Whereby
Think
Fields
Alphabet

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