These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no …

Adrienne Rich
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company
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