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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas
Age: 39 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 27
Died: 1953
Died: November 9
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Dylan Marlais Thomas
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And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
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