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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

For Sean


How much do I love thee?
Go ask the deep sea
How many rare gems
In its coral caves be,
Or ask the broad billows,
That ceaselessly roar
How many bright sands
So they kiss on the shore?

-Mary Ashley Townsend, 19th-century American essayist, poet and novelist

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