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Nathaniel and Sophia reunited after 142 years.(Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Hawthorne)

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From: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Date: 20060922
Author:Joseph, Mary

It was, observed Hawthorne Dominican Sister Mary de Paul, an event worthy of an opera. After a separation lasting 142 years Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, the closest of lovers in life, were reunited when Sophia and their daughter Una were reinterred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on June 26, 2006. Adding to the romantic drama of the event was the fact that the reunion was made possible by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the community of Catholic sisters founded by the couple's younger daughter, Rose, in 1900. About thirty-five descendants of Julian Hawthorne gathered in Concord, ...

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