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To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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