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Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels, produced by Maya Gallus of Red Queen Productions.

✵ 27. December 1913 – 4. March 1986
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“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”

Elizabeth Smart

Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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