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She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast and had four daughters. They were eventually divorced and she returned to California in 1963.



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She was closely associated with the Southern California poetry community. She is also noted for her relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter and his only child, Marina Louise Bukowski. Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Frances which has been used as a eulogy, "One for Old Snaggle-Tooth" (1977).



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She died from complications of a hip fracture in Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, California, early on June 2, 2009.





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