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I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

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Stephen Dunn
Age: 81 †
Born: 1939
Born: June 24
Died: 2021
Died: June 24
Engineer
Poet
Queens
New York
Tried
Else
Someone
Become
Juicy
Discover
Identity

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