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Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1903.
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She was beautiful in face and form, and lovelier still in spirit; As a flower she grew, and as a fair young flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine; there had never come to her a single sorrow; and none ever knew her who did not love and revere her for the bright, sunny temper and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure, and joyous as a maiden; loving, tender, and happy. As a young wife; when she had just become a mother, when her life seemed to be just begun, and when the years seemed so bright before her—then, by a strange and terrible fate, death came to her. And when my heart’s dearest died, the light went from my life forever.
Teddy Roosevelt, in a privately published tribute to his first wife Alice Hathaway Lee, who died when she was only 22
FDR seated in front of Springwood-- his home in Hyde Park, New York-- with his mother Sara, daughter Anna, and two grandchildren, Anna and Curtis.
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