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On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather
This is a touching memoir of Alexandra Deppling's unrequited love on a ship from Genoa to New York City with Mrs. Ebbling. Despite illness, and a dandy of a husband, their love is indisputable. "Vanity sometimes saves us when nothing else will, and mine saved you."

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