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Gossip is the social mosquito.

Myrtle Reed

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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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Olive Green
Myrtle Reed MacCollough
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when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner.
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When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.
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It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.
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Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.
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