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“She was thinking of the final scene in Mary Sidney Herbert's play, where Cleopatra dramatically kills herself and falls on the body of the man she could not live without. It was not reality as Emilia knew it. In her life, when faced with yet more adversity, a woman straightened her shoulders and said, All right, I'll take on another burden. Strength was endurance, not escape.”