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An Orchid Root

Lorene Pearson

Salt Lake City, Utah: General Board of Relief Society, April 1935

  • Lorene Pearson: Author
Fiction, Short Story
Sadie is devastated after losing her daughter. One day, a woman brings Sadie a cake. This woman tells her about her own troubles and about how she realized that you have to bring beauty into your own life during tough times. A few days later while Sadie is overcome with grief, she finds out that a neighbor lost her husband and daughter as well. Sadie quickly loses herself in preparing to serve this woman.
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BX 8605.1 .R28 vol.22 no.4
207-209
English

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Published in The Relief Society Magazine, volume 22, issue 4, pages 207-209, April 1935
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