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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
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Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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