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Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

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Kate Morton
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: July 19
Author
Novelist
Writer
Berri
South Australia
Australia
Ugliness
Wretched
Described
Grief
Turned
Poet
Inside
Loved
Adequately

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