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Together, lizzies father, her uncles, and her brothers helped create a family legacy that played a key role in establishing the republic of texas. She ran her own private school, had her own cattle brand, published articles in frank leslies magazine and. As avery, she has managed to write some of the nationally bestselling books, and has a result gained popularity among readers and authors in equal measure. However, in 1908, another notable lizzie borden, daughter of john p.
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