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“I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.”
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“But all of those things were possible back then even though nobody”
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“Something I have learned over the years since those times is that nothing is ever truly gone from the world. No atom or electron ceases to exist, they only change from one thing into another. And no life ever ends but itself transmutes into other forms and places. John was alive in my heart and so I was able to glean a lesson that he meant to teach”
Walter Mosley, 47
“derring”
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“Scared is the lamp that lights the way.”
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