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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Annie Dillard Doak
Bells
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Lifted
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Bell
Never
Life
Struck

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