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When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

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Jandy Nelson
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 25
Writer
New York City
New York
Years
Decades
Sky
Rain
Swap
Flower
Pour
Color
Centuries
Century
Colors
Back
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Flowers

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