Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strang…

George Eliot
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Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. ✨ Laetitia Weaver, George Eliot Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century, Lulu.com
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Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. ✨ Laetitia Weaver, George Eliot Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century, Lulu.com

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