Elizabeth Armistead/statesman%E2%80%99s Respected Widow

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    But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 12:44.

    Jesus watching the widow contribute her two mites.