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the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.
Margaret Deland
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Margaret Deland
Age: 87 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 23
Died: 1945
Died: January 13
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Margaretta Wade Campbell
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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