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One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star
Maud Hart Lovelace
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Maud Hart Lovelace
Age: 87 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 25
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Minnesota
Maud Palmer Hart
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Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.
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And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.
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I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.
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Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this boy and then that one kiss you, when it didn't mean a thing. But it was wonderful when Joe Willard kissed her. And it did mean a thing.
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In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.
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She thought of the library, so shining white and new the rows and rows of unread books the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.
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The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.
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