All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to wh…

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ✨ Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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