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done & ended, I dread to think
of the long years of misery wh may
be in front of me – Then came
weeks of intolerable suffer-
ing – the months in wh she
had first lived & known
how she yearned & ached for
that dear heart on wh she had
been wont to lay her head,
for those sheltering arms!
And she was alone, widowed
desolate. She recd. company
& renewed visiting but in the
depths of her heart there was a
blank that was never filled up
a feeling of loneliness wh. nothing
cd. dispell because with him
[crossed out - because with him] she seemed
to have lost a part of her