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Alice Duer Miller: When a woman...

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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much
All of a sudden drops out of touch,
Is always busy and never can
Spare you a moment, it means a Man.

Source: Forsaking All Others, 1931.
-- Alice Duer Miller, (Jul 28 1874-1942), US poet, author; She is best remembered for White Cliffs, 1941, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during WW II; also wrote I Have Loved England.


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