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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.
In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.
Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
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- Rebecca Solnit
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- Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1961; activity date not established; Wikidata Q2134968, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2134968 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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