been so independent. She had been independent when George jilted her at her wedding and when John dies.
             Ellen was an incredibly religious woman, being Catholic she was not able to go to heaven holding without forgiving all that she vowed not to forgive. Before Ellen died she thinks of George and how she was better off without him but wishes that she had not she is quoted as saying, "What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn't come? She tried to remember. No, I swear he never harmed me but in that. He never harmed me but in that... and what if he did? There was the day, the day, but a whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it, crept up and over into the bright f
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