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“We were talkers —about our work, our pasts, our friends, our ideas ordinary and far-fetched. We would often wake before there was light in the sky and make coffee and let our minds rattle our tongues. We would end in exhaustion and elation. Not many nights or early mornings later, we would do the same. It was a forty-year conversation.”

“Many years ago, we didn’t have much income, we had love and work and play instead.”
— Mary Oliver about her love & lover, Molly Malone Cook.

Dazzlement (study), 1896. by Valdemar Schønheyder Møller