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First Line: RUTH VISITS HER MOTHER’S GRAVE IN THE CALIFORNIA HILLS
Last Line: that’s what going to sleep is like
Subject(s): MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS;
Full Poem Text Available at
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171254


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