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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Entirely
Made
Think
Clothe
Thinking
Sweater
Sweaters
Knots
Village
Stomach

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