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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes: Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
         

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.


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