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English, 20.05.2020 19:00, ninilizovtskt

What is the best summary of this paragraph?

Read this paragraph from The Dark Game.
When the war began, Elizabeth Van Lew was considered a southern "spinster." She was in her early forties and
unmarried. What could she do, she wondered, to serve her country? The answer came to her when she recalled her
father's aunt Letitia telling her how she had ministered to the captured troops of the Continental army during the American Revolution, especially those who had been wounded in
action.

Elizabeth Van Lew was an unmarried woman in her
forties who wanted to serve her country but did not know
how.

Elizabeth Van Lew asked herself what she wanted to do to help the Northern cause during the Civil War.

Elizabeth Van Lew was called a spinster in the South
during the time of the Civil War because she had been
unmarried for such a long time.

Elizabeth Van Lew wanted to help during the Civil War
and drew inspiration from a relative who had taken care of wounded Revolutionary soldiers.

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