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God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Nikki Giovanni

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Nikki Giovanni
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 7
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
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Responsibility
Adulthood
Class
Responsibilities
Mind
Rings
Really
Wearing
People
Grown
Sign
Adults
Sick

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