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Young Poet Draws Spotlight at Biden Inauguration

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   Twenty-two-year-old poet Amanda Gorman made headlines and dominated
   inauguration talk on social media Wednesday after speaking at President
   Joe Biden's inauguration.

   Her poem, in part:

   "We, the successors of a country and a time,

   Where a skinny black girl,

   Descended from slaves and raised by a single mother,

   Can dream of becoming president,

   Only to find herself reciting for one."

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