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If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.

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