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November 2, 1982

Dear Robert Penn Warren,

Since I was a young girl, I have admired you. Raised
in the country of Kentucky, I read your work and knew
that writing was the way out of being so poor. You

Started my poetry and I want to share it with you now.

By the time I reached Vanderbilt in graduate school, you

were a legend. Teachers there still remembered you as

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