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I miss my biggest heart

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Shaun Usher
Dec 10, 2021
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On this day in 1830, Emily Dickinson was born. Now celebrated as a poet of note, it wasn’t until her death in 1886 that the true scale of her profound poetry was both discovered and appreciated by family and friends, many of whom had only glimpsed her talents in the numerous poem-filled letters that she wrote. She found an even wider audience in 1890 wi…

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