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The Hell with Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart

by Mary D. Esselman, Elizabeth Ash Velez · 2002

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This heart-wrenching collection of poems expresses the anger, hurt, depression of loss - asking why, analysing rifts and striving for explanation.

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