"What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give lit...
It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~
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It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
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