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The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

Helen Humphreys

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Helen Humphreys
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 13
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Words
Along
Carried
Moving
Movement
Holds
Given
Leave
Muscles
Writing
Greater
River
Heart
Space
Apart
Flexing
Chance
Keeps
Muscle
World
Freedom
Rivers
Earthly
Water
Reader
Banks

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