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There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
Poet
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Numbness
Horrors
Genocide
Continuing
Horror
Culture

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