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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
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