Abigail Adams was an unusual woman for Colonial America. She was always thinking about things that no one else was. And she told people what she was thinking. She wrote to her husband, John, when he was away working on the Declaration of Independence, and told him how she thought it should work. She also told him what was important to the ordinary people around her. Abigail Adams was more than the wife of one president and the mother of another. She was the bridge between the Founding Fathers and the people in the new country called the United States.

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