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All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly
Born: May 5, 1864
Died: Jan 27, 1922

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Thoughts, World, Fate, Mind, Made, Hopeless, Sit, Busy, Months, Several, Sewing, Asylum, Over, Faint, Employ, Does, Prisoners, Patients, Confinement, Clothing, After, Ponder, Poor, Grow

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