``I so didn't want to be a poet,'' Ms. Ryan, 62, said in a phone interview from her home in Fairfax, Calif. ``I came from sort of a self-contained people who didn't believe in public exposure, and public investigation of the heart was rather repugnant to me.''
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Kay Ryan: ``I so didn't want to be a poet...''
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One out of 12 stroke survivors contemplates suicide
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Psychologist took her own life
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Barrymore doesn't want 'exposed' childhood for daughter
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Wife of former Illinois Gov. Ryan dies
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Seniors group, 60 Plus Association, comes out in support of the Ryan plan
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Michelle Pfeiffer ``not thrilled'' to be in 50s
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Michael Jackson 'didn't want to be black'
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Ryan likely to seek partial break up of Bord Gáis
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Young women with BRCA mutations feel differently about options for relationships, careers
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Pensioner was considering suicide
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'We are not an apathetic people':
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Miley Cyrus insists she's not 'trying to be sl**ty'
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Ryan rejects Vic leadership tensions
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``You Can't Choose the Time You Live in''
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``I always thought I wanted a big family, But ...''
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Old age is not for sissies