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Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
1885-1922
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Alexander Graham Bell: A Private Life
A Private Life
1921 · Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia
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I hear little now except the inner rushing of my own blood, while companies, historians, and disciples arrange my life around a single instrument and leave the rest to silence.
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