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Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.
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] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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