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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
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If you can't be free, be a mystery.
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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.
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