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Poor Folk August 5th Barbara

In which a tender correspondence unfolds between two kindred souls, one urging the other to cast off melancholy and carry hope lightly amid their shared privations. The writer, mindful of both their mutual suffering and the perils of undue anxiety, beseeches that compassion be balanced with care for one’s own heart.

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In which a tender correspondence unfolds between two kindred souls, one urging the other to cast off melancholy and carry hope lightly amid their shared privations. The writer, mindful of both their mutual suffering and the perils of undue anxiety, beseeches that compassion be balanced with care for one’s own heart.

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