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So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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