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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Sisters
Intimacy
Chosen
Two
Women
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