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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
Activist
Teacher
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
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World
Windowpane
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