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Orange Jacobs: “Look in this connection to the brevity of life; its incompleteness; its aimless, random, and fragmentary carreers…”

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Look in this connection to the brevity of life; its incompleteness; its aimless, random, and fragmentary carreers; tragedies; its injustices; its sorrows and separations.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs reflects on the challenges and tragedies of life, highlighting its brevity and incompleteness.

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