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Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

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Mari Evans
Age: 97 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 16
Died: 2017
Died: March 10
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Toledo
Ohio
Mari E. Evans
Mari Evans Phemster
Mari Evans
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No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.
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