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

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