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stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.

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
Private
Darkness
Stop
Hands
Find
Real
Mccoy
Amputation
Holiness

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