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.:. Girl Walking Towards Woman, Carrying Flower Plate 465, Animal Locomotion Believe for the moment in this gift of flowers the small girl holds out as she walks forward, fair and round, through sunlight. She carries pearly everlastings for the seated woman whose face grows radiant, whose bare arm rises to receive them like Adam's hand for the touch of God. It is God the Son who will redeem us. This gift the woman reaches for is her own life returned to her, the young life to live through, the son or daughter we fear too soon will turn away and won't return, whose life will flower beyond us, beyond our care or understanding. We age in doubt and memory, we can hardly imagine life going on without us. The pearly everlastings touch the woman's heart though they break it. The kiss she would give in return the child will not have. Fair and sunlit, innocent and so immortal, she turns away: no gift 72 so rooted in death is welcome. ...

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