"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming....suddenly you find--at the age of 50, say--that a whole new life has opened before you."
by Agatha Christie
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- Lovelace, Richard. "For Althea, from Prison"
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- Robinson, E.A. "Richard Cory."
- Tennyson, Alfred. "Flower in the Crannied Wall"
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