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STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976) by AUDRE LORDE

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First Line: OUT OF HER WOMB OF PAIN MY MOTHER SPAT ME
Last Line: For the vanished mother / of a black girl
Subject(s): MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS; WOMEN;

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