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It is written in the form of a litany of sorrows, depicting her misfortune caused by the death of her husbands and children, describing life as a martyrdom possible to endure only by the help of religion. Her description of her life centers on the sorrow she felt for the illness of her mother, the
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baron Gustaf Posse af
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