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My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.

Anne Waldman

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