Date: 1791, 1794
"My daily employment is to think of you and weep, to pray for your happiness and deplore my own folly: my nights are scarce more happy, for if by chance I close my weary eyes, and hope some small forgetfulness of sorrow, some little time to pass in sweet oblivion, fancy, still waking, wafts me ho...
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Date: 1999
"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
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Date: June 19, 2000
"The words slid from my brain, and knotted in my stomach."
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