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Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
Professor
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
Space
Lives
Cannot
Even
Fit
Grow
Grows

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