Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
("These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901")
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