I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whethe…

Margaret Atwood
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I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward. ✨ Margaret Atwood (1987). Selected Poems: 1965-1975, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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