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“Whatever it is—she has tried it—”

Emily Dickinson

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"whatever it is"and Eliza Coleman
2005-10-12
Added by: george mamunes
I suspect this poem refers to Elixa Coleman Dudley, who died of TB months before. Elixa was one of Dickinson's closest friends, and
was most likely medicinally addicted to opium throughout her adult years.

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