In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts _ tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.
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Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts _ tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.
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