Faustina The Elder/nerva%e2%80%93antonine Family Tree

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    “Late in the afternoon, we rode through Brewster, so named after Elder Brewster, for fear he would be forgotten else. Who has not heard of Elder Brewster? Who knows who he was?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For most women who are considering it, single motherhood is not their first choice, but it’s not their last one either. They would prefer a husband in their family, but they’d rather have a family without one than no family at all.”
    —Anne Cassidy. “Every Child Should Have a Father But....,” McCall’s (March 1985)

    “The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
    It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
    Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)