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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
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Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
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