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Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

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
Today
Infection
Must
Jewels
Important
Ring
Rings
Gods
Meant
Nature
Twig
Form
Twigs

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