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if i was a cat i would spend all my nine lives with you
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential work first appeared in the national Era on June 5th, 1851. Harriet Beecher Stowe the most influential American never ever written appeared first in weekly installments between June 1851 and April 1852 in the national era, a Washington DC periodical with an anti slavery slant.
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He feels that he should have created something important by that moment, and he is worried that his life is passing by without him accomplishing anything.