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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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