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In a dream you are never eighty.

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
Dreamer
Aging
Youth
Age
Dream
Never
Eighty

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