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==Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett==
==Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett==
[[Image:120px-Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett.jpg|thumb|Walt Whitman (seated) and Bill Duckett. (1886)]]
[[Image:120px-Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett.jpg|thumb|Walt Whitman (seated) and Bill Duckett. (1886)]]
In 1884 when Whitman was 65 years old, he bought a house at 328 Mickle Street. Bill Duckett was a neighbor boy who lived three doors down and was somewhere between twelve and fifteen at the time.<ref>http://www.nambla.org/whitman.html</ref> The two may have met while playing [[:Wikipedia:Quoits|quoits]] and as Duckett latter recalled: "We boys had a quoit club, and W. made us a present of a handsome set of quoits for pitching." Soon after, he moved in with Whitman and the two lived together for about five years.
In 1884 when Whitman was 65 years old, he bought a house at 328 Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey. Bill Duckett was a neighbor boy who lived three doors down and was somewhere between twelve and fifteen at the time.<ref>http://www.nambla.org/whitman.html</ref> The two may have met while playing [[:Wikipedia:Quoits|quoits]] and as Duckett latter recalled: "We boys had a quoit club, and W. made us a present of a handsome set of quoits for pitching." Soon after, he moved in with Whitman and the two lived together for about five years.
    
    
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==See also==
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Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality. [1]

Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett

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Walt Whitman (seated) and Bill Duckett. (1886)

In 1884 when Whitman was 65 years old, he bought a house at 328 Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey. Bill Duckett was a neighbor boy who lived three doors down and was somewhere between twelve and fifteen at the time.[2] The two may have met while playing quoits and as Duckett latter recalled: "We boys had a quoit club, and W. made us a present of a handsome set of quoits for pitching." Soon after, he moved in with Whitman and the two lived together for about five years.

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