“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”
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“Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry — not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.”
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As quoted in The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
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Context: If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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"Tear In Your Hand".
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