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Secrets
UNITED STATES · 1924

Secrets

Frank Borzage
frontier life marriage family sacrifice forbidden love survival
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Synopsis

An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another w

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