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"People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.""
— John Updike (The Widows of Eastwick)
— John Updike (The Widows of Eastwick)
"Additionally, many widows took over family shops or businesses- and, not uncommonly, ran them better than their dead husbands. Y.pestis [black death germ] turns out to have been something of a feminist."
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
— John Kelly (The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time)
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