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and in the wilderness of Massachusetts, there was an equally shared meal
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on the thousand mile Trail of Tears
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a painter of the lives of American women
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on a beach near where the Pilgrims first landed
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across the Central Valley to the Mountains of California
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the Oklahoma Dust Bowl in the depression;
Oklahoma, the land of the Cherokee Indians
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two very different women who led heroic lives
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the timeless image of her strength in adversity
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as if the continuation of the Trail of Tears was not enough
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It is time that the interference in our lives is stopped