Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.
But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don__ care what people say, they can__ all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men__ graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don__ care what you ladies think of me,_ her voice broke again, __ will withdraw from both clubs and I__l _ I__l pull up every weed off every Yankee__ grave I can find and I__l plant flowers, too _ and _ I just dare anyone to stop me!
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But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don__ care what people say, they can__ all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men__ graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don__ care what you ladies think of me,_ her voice broke again, __ will withdraw from both clubs and I__l _ I__l pull up every weed off every Yankee__ grave I can find and I__l plant flowers, too _ and _ I just dare anyone to stop me!
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