"I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world."
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Novelists from the United StatesColumbia University alumniAfrican AmericansHarvard University alumniPhysicians from Washington, D.C.
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