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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

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
Sheer
Skin
Skins
Listen
Open
Dark
Cobweb
Give
Scoop
Giving
Cobwebs

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