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Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Activist
Climate Activist
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
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Never
Wandered
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