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Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

Juliet Marillier

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Juliet Marillier
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 27
Novelist
Writer
Dunedin
New Zealand
Mother
Breaths
Earth
Wild
Dance
Live
Eternal
Heart
Drink
Would
Deep
Drum
Living
Streams
Song
Breath

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