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Thank you, I very much enjoyed reading this.

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Love this, and found it thanks to Joyce Wycoff’s quote from it in her “Gratitude Mojo” newsletter. Now I’m going to check out the one you mentioned and linked to. So many awesome writers on Substack!

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Than you for this amazing essay and insight. Yes! This!

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thank you so much! 💜

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merci d'avoir si bien écrit sur Sinnead O Connor

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🙏💜

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thanks for this post, and for mention of Katherine May

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🙏💜

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Keening banned Catholic

Muted connection with life

Banned experience of death

The remnants pulled apart

Cyclic loops of time

Broken by the church

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Thank you for this! I actually posted an essay about Dickinson days before O'Connor died, so I was thinking of the two of them simultaneously throughout much of the week. Your essay helped me see deeper, fascinating connections between the two of them.

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Jillian--thanks so much for sharing that and reading--I adore your newsletter and loved your post on Dickinson's manuscripts--there is so much there to still be discovered and felt so deeply--she was punk before there was punk. ;) Thanks again for your kind note, it means a ton. 💜

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