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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Homesick
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Love
Throat
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Homesickness

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