Kathleen Collins

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I found this article in the New York Times about a writer named Kathleen Collins.

Ms. Collins passed away; however, her daughter saved the writer's work in a box, which the daughter found too painful to look through.

Later Collins' daughter found the courage to look through the box and that experience became the subject of the song "saved in a box".

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