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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
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About Lucy Webb, nine years his junior, whom he later married, in a letter to his sister, Fanny Hayes Platt (23 October 1847).

 
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