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Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

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
Everyone
Mouse
Inspirational
Stays
Left
Mice
Hands
Muse
Good
Nurse
Except
Hand
White
Mild

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