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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

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
Keep
Littles
Picket
Little
Fences
Nightmares
Fence
Nightmare
Build
White

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