Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get you…

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Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.41, University of Missouri Press
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Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Poems, 1951-1967, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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