"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.“


-Mary Oliver

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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

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