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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Dead
Learn
War
Take
Many
Wars
Return

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