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Upon her return home, in June 1885, she lived with her stepmother in Cedarville, and spent the winters with her in Baltimore.

Addams, still filled with vague ambition, sank into depression, unsure of her future and feeling useless leading the conventional life expected of a well-to-do young woman.

She wrote long letters to her friend from Rockford Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr, mostly about Christianity and books but sometimes about her despair.