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my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

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Tove Ditlevsen
Age: 57 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 14
Died: 1976
Died: March 7
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København
Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen
Childhood
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Scabs

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my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.
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