Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joi…

Annie Dillard
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Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). An American Childhood, p.28, Canongate Books
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