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Thursday, September 10, 2026

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on September 10



Hilda Doolittle  (1886)
Hannah Webster Foster  (1758)
Stephen Jay Gould  (1941)
Mary Oliver  (1935)
Franz Werfel  (1890) 

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