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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

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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
Two
Pink
Orange
Lays
Medicine
Green
Sleep
White

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