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Let me learn now where Beauty is I was born to know her mysteries . . .

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Anne Spencer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 6
Died: 1975
Died: July 12
Librarian
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Virginia
Annie Bethel Scales
Mysteries
Mystery
Beauty
Learn
Born

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