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You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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Poet
Writer
Hutchinson
Kansas
Purpose
Whole
Never
World
Pours
Aimed
Wide
Birth
Alone

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