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I'm Sorry, Emily Dickinson

I'm Sorry, Emily Dickinson

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Daniel Lavery
Sep 27, 2018
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I didn’t used to get it, the hyphens, or the em dashes, I have never been able to keep track of which is which and probably never will and use them both interchangeably, and I was just like, okay, I can get behind the all-white shawls, the reclusion, the solid Yankee-no-thank-you, the “upstairs-in-Massachusetts No,” the attic sentiment, the windowhearte…

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