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She was known for her outstanding novellas, movie scripts, and short stories, but mostly for social and humane claims embroidered into her poems. Anecdote by dorothy parker so silent i when love was by he yawned, and turned away. It went through at least ten printings in a years time. Her verse speaks of love and its curses, unbearable absence, death unable to fulfill its goal, the.
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