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rug

(82,333 posts) Fri Feb 14, 2014, 05:28 PM Feb 2014

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130 years ago Teddy Roosevelt, age 25, lost his wife and his mother within hours.

His daughter Alice was two days old.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelts-wife-and-mother-die

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130 years ago Teddy Roosevelt, age 25, lost his wife and his mother within hours. (Original Post) rug Feb 2014 OP

What a terrible tragedy. CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2014 #1

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,651 posts)

1. What a terrible tragedy.

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Fri Feb 14, 2014, 05:50 PM

Feb 2014

And yet, he lived on.

He was able to persevere, to live fully and to love again.

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