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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
Poet
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
Together
Sewing
Different
Stitches
Skin
Skins
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Mine
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