I am only one, only one, only one.
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Celebrated author and poet Gertrude Stein had an approach to writing that divided audiences, the unimpressed of whom found her often repetitious style—“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose” being a classic example—simply impenetrable and nonsensical. For others, it was, and remains, a breath…
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