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Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

Lauren Groff

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Lauren Groff
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Cooperstown
New York
Lips
Spain
Population
Recently
India
Poems
Bora
Passion
Reports
Decimated
World
Midst
Populations
Fill
Tongues
Illness
Vigilant
Tongue
Listens

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