“All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones. A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair, a place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising, a place unchained.

She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves. Do not thin yourself, be vast.

You do not bring the ocean to a river.”

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