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We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

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Shirley Jackson
Age: 48 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 8
Author
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Shirley Hardie Jackson
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Forth
Never
Fields
Clouds
Like
Tree
Although
Breeze
Seen
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Distance
Shadows
Today
Shadow
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Back
Ocean
Grass
Going
Moved
Trees

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