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Anne Sexton Quotes: It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.
         

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.


Anne Sexton
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