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The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Friendship
Sense
Also
Would
Continent
Continents
Traveling
Competitive
Amazing

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