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She was awake. There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her
-October 1953

Sometimes I'm ancient.I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way? My uncle says no. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks.I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid. My uncle says his grandfather remembered when children didn't kill each other.But that was a long time ago when they had things different

Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.

As all the stars may
be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop.

It is such a ride reading this 30 years later after the uncut version came out. So many things that were just describing the world describing the world that has passed.