lil' Ghetto Princess

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'(Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.)

"Kiss me,' Clare says, and I turn to her, white face and dark lips floating in the dark, and I submerge, I fly:

being wells up in my heart'

~ Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger