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“I am alone
and my heart
is my own.

Loneliness.
Solitude.
The first is a curse,
the second a blessing.
I would rather be a hermit
than live with a stranger
who would make me feel
even more lonely
than when I am
truly
alone.”
― Margarita Engle, The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist