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Illuminated
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There was something more, something difficult to articulate. The woman in the photograph was illuminated: it was that face, of course, with its beautiful features and the enlivened expression, but it was the styling of the image, too. The long, unfussy hair, the romantic dress, loose and earthy, but also alluring where it caught her waist, where a sleeve had been pushed up her arm to reveal sunlit skin. Elodie could almost feel the warm breeze coming off the river to brush against the woman's fa
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― The Clockmaker's Daughter
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
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Disparate energies come together
That have never been aligned before.
And so bound,
Is the world illuminated,
Changed forever in an instant…
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