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Hortense Robbins

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My name used to be in the papers daily         As having dined somewhere,         Or traveled somewhere,         Or rented a house in Paris,         Where I entertained the nobility.         I was forever eating or traveling,         Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.         Now I am here to do honor         To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.         No one cares now where I dined,         Or lived, or whom I entertained,         Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden.

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