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" Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. "

Agnes Smedley

Mother

Weakness

Class

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Happy

Time

Together

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Place

Family

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