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Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

~ Barbara Kingsolver ~

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Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits...

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