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Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.

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
Mean
Loving
Long
Sweet
Good
Feet
Means
Spoons
Two
Brown
Body
Naked
Play
Legs
Children
Shoes

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