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I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Heartbreak
Forced
Living
Death
Keep
Kind
Glorify

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