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You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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