Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows whe…

Ernest Hemingway
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1995). The old man and the sea, p.11, Hueber Verlag
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