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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.
Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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