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Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.
Robert Hayden
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Robert Hayden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 4
Died: 1980
Died: February 25
Dancer
Lighting Designer
Performing Artist
Poet
University Teacher
Detroit
Michigan
Asa Bundy Sheffey
Robert Earl Hayden
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