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And then five days later, April 15, comes this entry,
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and it's the longest entry in her diary,
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several pages, and all around the outside
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of the pages she blackened the edges.
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She writes, "The darkest day I ever remember.
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This morning the sun rose upon a nation jubilant with victory,
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but it sets upon one plunged into deepest sorrow."
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Her longest of all diary entries
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she talked about the shocking intelligence
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of Lincoln's murder, and then says,
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"Where will treason ever end?
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The rapidity with which events crowd upon one another now