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I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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