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Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

Anne Rivers Siddons

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Anne Rivers Siddons
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 1
Died: 2019
Died: September 11
Novelist
Writer
Fairburn
Georgia
Come
Spring
Soft
Sighing
Need
Close
Fill
Soaking
Needs
Return
Vast
Elemental
Even
Seem
Somehow
Elementals
Long
Away
Core
Vine
Cannot
Loves
Walter
Shriveled
Way
Become
Rain
Overflow
Wetness
Like
Seems
Sea
Vines
Parched

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