Victoria Woodhull not only ran for president, but worked on Wall Street and hung out with Cornelius Vanderbilt. Gives the notion that all Victorian women were trapped a run for its money.
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Too bad she didn’t win. 🙂
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i think she was a bit too rebellious and quite frankly weird to ever have a chance. Her multiple marriages, her spiritualism and her extended family were too much for most Americans–think Billy Carter.
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Oh, well. I just like quirky.
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Me too. I always vote for the weirdest candidates hoping they’ll shake things up, but they always lose 🙂
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🙂 Maybe you should run. I’ll vote for you… 🙂
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I’d need a lot of financing 😉
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Hmm. Me, too!
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A fairytale poet and novelist who writes about morphine addicted soldiers–a winning ticket!
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Sounds like someone after my own heart. Up to the morphine-addiction — bummer.
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You’d never guess it but the book is really about how a family and their simple acts of kindness change the soldier’s life.
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Sounds great!
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