Word: graybeard
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love? . . . Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched? Or, rather, Old Graybeard, why the devil was I ever born at all?" Brown himself shares the mood of despair: "This is Daddy's bedtime secret for today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue...