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There is such a kind heart to this story

I'm a sucker for the imagery of nature, it's simply gorgeous to me: I felt a pang as deep as an old root - She still held my hand, fingers curled into my palm like a vine - Footprints trailed behind me to the water’s edge, as if I had just risen from a shell, new-created in the frothing secrets of the deep - I slipped, let go, screamed, certain I would be swallowed down like a grape by my own earth, my mother’s earth