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I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Life
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I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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