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You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

Mary Szybist

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Mary Szybist
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 20
Poet
Writer
Willamsport
Pennsylvania
Worlds
Choose
Hands
Two
World
Emptiness

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