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Mary Lincoln

Significant Others

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Lincoln and Mary Todd

Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd met at a cotillion in the winter of 1839. They discovered they had common passions, Shakespeare, poetry, and politics. Within the year they were engaged, and then very quickly they were not. He came to her one night and told her he did not love her. She stomped her foot and told him, go! And never come back!"

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