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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

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
Break
Exotic
Woman
Monument
Two
Month
Children
Aging
Would
Legs
Like
Flower
Months
Monuments
Blood
Bloom

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