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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

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
Avoiding
Six
Childhood
Lived
Graveyard
Full
Grotesque
House
Dolls
Body
Suspect
Suspects

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