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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Milky
Worrying
Taking
Worry
Space
Wish
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