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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
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Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
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