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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."


"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."
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