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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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