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  • The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

    Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.446, Delphi Classics