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Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.
Myrtle Reed
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Myrtle Reed
Age: 36 †
Born: 1874
Born: September 27
Died: 1911
Died: August 17
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