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Poetry gave me the life I live: many of the people I love, the places I've traveled, the things I've learned about myself, the job I hold. And I can't count the times I've been on the precipice of making a - shall we say adventurous? - decision and thought, But think of the poem I'll get out of this. Most of them have paid off.

James Allen Hall

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