Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~

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