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"The modern biographers worry
'how far it went,' their tender friendship.
They wonder just what it means
when he writes he thinks of her constantly,
his guardian angel, beloved friend....
The modern biographers ask
the rude, irrelevant question
of our age, as if the event
of two bodies meshing together
establishes the degree of love..."

This is so tender and wonderful:

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Long, long before Carl Sagan enchanted our collective conscience with the fact that "we're all made of star-stuff," astrophysicist Cecilia Payne, born on this day in 1900, established this fact by discovering the chemistry of the cosmos. Her lost Harvard radio talks from the 1930s, and a lovely poem she wrote about the essence of science:

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