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Column | For 130 years, we’ve been rewriting Lizzie Borden’s motive - washingtonpost.com

T The Washington Post · 23 Sep 2026 · 1 min read

Any self-respecting student of history or womens studies or schoolyard chants knows that Lizzie Borden murdered her mother by giving her 40 whacks with an extremely large hatchet, or, if you want to …

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