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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Keeps
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Ignorance
Pieces
Left
Every
Patience

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