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The idea of resurrection is, I think, a botanical idea. This is where the allegory came from, that’s what started it. Immortality is also a botanical concept. All plants, which we view as less evolved than us, actually know one more miracle
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“A House of My Own
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
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Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after.
Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.”
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Preeti’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Preeti’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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8 friends
198 books
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466 books
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178 friends
898 books
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140 books
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136 friends
208 books
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14 friends
25 books
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4 friends
852 books
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21 friends
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