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A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Nicole Brossard

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Nicole Brossard
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 27
Feminist
Poet
Writer
Montreal
Quebec
Sexuality
Disappear
Process
Doe
World
Disappearing
Reinvent
Lesbian

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