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VOA: special.2009.01.16

When she was about eleven years old, she decided that she wanted to go to Africa to live with and write about animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

soon she may have to send her guests to live in an empty field nearby, because she cannot bear to look them in the eye when they go hungry.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22