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Her theme was happiness: what it was what it was not where we might find it, where not and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.
Mary Lavin
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Mary Lavin
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: June 10
Died: 1996
Died: March 25
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Walpole
Massachusetts
Mary Josephine Lavin
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