“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

—  Harriet Beecher Stowe , book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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