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I want to do something splendid . . . something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all some day.
Louisa May Alcott
This passage comes from Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age novel Little Women, published in 1868, which is set during the American Civil War, and tells the
story of the lives of the four March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Despite
the goodness of Meg (the eldest of the four March women), it is Jo – the brave, outspoken, headstrong sister, and the one who is speaking here – who has always been the one to identify with.
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