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62:, Signe Christine Antoinette Manna Reimer was the daughter of Hans Bertel Reimer (1800–1872), a school master, and his wife Kirsten Poulsdatter (1827–1920). She had two half brothers from her father's first marriage. Brought up in a well-to-do family, after attending her father's school in Hårslev, when she was nine she moved to her half-brother Alexander's home in
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