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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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