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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring bog!

-- Emily Dickinson (#288)

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