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When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem We Wear the Mask.
Edwidge Danticat
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Edwidge Danticat
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 19
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