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Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

Jeffrey McDaniel

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Jeffrey McDaniel
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Poet
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Else
Someone
Weighs
Absence
Presence

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