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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you."
Frida Kahlo

John Sokol’s word portrait of Joyce Carol Oates as In the Region of Ice

John Sokol’s word portrait of Joyce Carol Oates as In the Region of Ice

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