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Long were you a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she woke to give you birth.
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The germ of the race is in your mother’s longing.
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My father and mother desired a child and they begot me.
And I wanted a mother and a father and I begot night and the sea.
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Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
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