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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
Poet
Writer
Groves
Texas
Great
Stopped
Work
Internet
Never
Middle
Life
Art
Memorize
People
Didn
Devoid
Thought
Grasp
Ideas
Sat
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