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Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.
Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
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- Kate Morton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1976 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1976; activity date not established; Wikidata Q465890, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465890 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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