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For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
-Michael Ondaatje
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For The First Forty Days A Child

Michael Ondaatje
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
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