"What’s redacted will repeat, and you cannot learn that you burn when you touch the heat, so we touch the heat, and we cut facsimiles of love and death (just separate holes in sheets where you cannot breathe, and you cannot see)."
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Singer-songwriters from the United StatesFolk singersWomen singers from the United StatesWomen born in the 1980s
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