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If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

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Jean Toomer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 28
Died: 1967
Died: March 30
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Eugene Pinchback Toomer
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