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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

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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
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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