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Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

Marge Piercy

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Marge Piercy
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
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