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You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Going
Inhabited
Deepest
Broken
Place

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