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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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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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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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