Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each…

Adrienne Rich
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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young. ✨ 1978 The Dream of a Common Language,'Twenty-One Love Poems, III'.
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