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 terious affinity, may become, and recognize each other as sisters in heart? Who can doubt that there is a bond of sisterhood between their spirits, as real and as strong as the tie of blood between sisters? And if this be true, must not that internal kinship outlive even the dissevering stroke of death, and proclaim them true sisters in the great. hereafter? But in this lower sphere, what name can we give to their attachment but that of "woman-friendship?"