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At the age of twelve, her talent for writing verse began to manifest itself in brief poems published in the local press. Later, several appeared in the
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243:. Her poems of note included, "His Second Wife", "One Woman's Story", "A Fragment", "If I Had Known", and "The Wanderers".
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