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I originally posted this Wall Street Journal article, A Common Bond of Grief to the external links section. My original plan was to use it as a source for the article as it was written by historian Harold Holzer and contains a lot of information on McCullough's family and their relationship with Lincoln that I couldn't really find on any other sources on the web. However, just as I was about to add it, the article was put behind a paywall that I don't have access to use it as a source, so I just ended up putting it in the External links section. I thought I'd post this on the Talk page in case somebody with any interest in the story and has access to the WSJ wants to improve this article. Libertybison ( talk) 08:36, 18 December 2016 (UTC) reply