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By Eleanor Ross Taylor

When I was two feet tall

and held the hand above,

how could I know

how far that limping bond would go,

that finger-inch of love.

Source: Poetry (October 2010)

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Eleanor Ross Taylor was born in 1920 in Norwood, North Carolina, and graduated from Women’s College, now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in 1942. While studying at Vanderbilt University, Caroline and Allen Tate introduced her to novelist Peter Taylor, whom she would marry...

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