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Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver
Age: 83 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 10
Died: 2019
Died: January 17
Climate Activist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Maple Heights
Ohio
Mary Jane Oliver
Leave
Wherever
Dies
Drive
Rowdy
Born
Train
Glossy
Firsts
Across
Indistinguishable
First
Road
Muscle
Take
Behinds
Arrive
Life
Deep
Airplane
World
Behind
Muscles

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