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See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

Stevie Smith

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Stevie Smith
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: September 20
Died: 1971
Died: March 7
Illustrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Hull
England
Florence Margaret Smith
Upon
Washing
Comes
Fence
Away
Rolling
Persons
Separate
Person
Cat
Might
Mets
Shriek
Never
Break
Moan
Love
Faces
Sweetheart

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