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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Seeds
Pray
Plant
Rain
Praying
Broken
Heart
Cracks

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