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"Miss Alcott is my favorite. Aren't her works lovely? I never get tired of reading them. I like the Elsie books pretty well, too, but they are just a little tame. It seems to me that Elsie did too much crying. In real life you don't see people crying all the time." Miss Judith Norment, age 11, as quoted in an interview in Washington Post (DC) 25 Mar 1906, p 2 col 2-3