O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you…

Walt Whitman
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.228, NYU Press
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.228, NYU Press

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