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you lean with such
confiding love support
you in your speechless
desolation

With love
Mary P Merchant

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705 Stockton Street
Saturday
June 24th
-93

Widowed! and childless!
Truly God's ways are
inscrutable. Nor do I
pretend to be able to
give you any comfort
but only to tell you
how constantly I have
thought of you in this
your crowning bereavement.
To day "he is going to his
long home, and mourners,
go about the streets."

I can only