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what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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