“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

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American writer 1967

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“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

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“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”