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Keeping score and getting even—that’s what enemies do.
Keeping score and getting even—that’s what enemies do.
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.
The angel Gabriel bursts into the life of an ordinary young woman without permission, terrifying her.