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When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.

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
Beats
Cries
Tin
Cry
Toilets
Cocktail
Sleep
Sits
Cocktails
Someone
Dress
Hangs
Self
Ball
Drum
Heart
Dresses
Toilet
Trying
Balls
Kisses
Kissing
Laundry
Flushes

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