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Nov 22, 2000

Volume 117, Issue #33

Lectionary

Smoothing the path (Luke 3:1-6)

I cherish the vision of what could have been a great moment in American poetry. One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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