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When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

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Leif Enger
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.
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I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.
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So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.
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