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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! For future issues, we want to fill this section with our devoted readers’ thoughts and opinions, so please write us at [email protected]. In the meantime, here is the famous “Remember the Ladies” letter Abigail Adams wrote to her husband on March 31, 1776, and enjoy the story about her on P. 28.

Braintree March 31 1776

I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you; and tell me if you may where your Fleet are gone? What

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