Date: 1791, 1794
"I would endure it all chearfully, could I but once more see my dear, blessed mother, hear her pronounce my pardon, and bless me before I died; but alas! I shall never see her more; she has blotted the ungrateful Charlotte from her remembrance, and I shall sink to the grave loaded with her's and ...
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Date: 1791, 1794
"Oh! never, never! whilst I have existence, will the agony of that moment be erased from my memory."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1963
"And she set something on my tongue and in panic I bit down, and darkness wiped me out like chalk on a blackboard."
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Date: 2011
"A yellow-brown glob would slide down the metal, and Tommie would shut her eyes, the bees and white heads of flowers nodding in the warm daylight and the silhouette of Gary’s baseball cap written across the inside of her skull."
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