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			<title>Without the Cat</title>
			<description>No chickens ever made it into my father's heart. It was broken when the cat died: mangled, if I'm honest. We thought hens might help, but he didn't let them in.</description>
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			<title>The Ancient Forest</title>
			<description>According to Grandma, in California you could drive through the trees. Giant redwoods were so wide that people cut tunnels from them.</description>
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			<title>The Spirit of Health and Safety</title>
			<description>My body was speeding forward over the threshold. A split-second was enough to feel the breeze on my face and register the darkness. Fast-moving darkness in the shape of Ukrainian farmland.</description>
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			<title>The Serpentine</title>
			<description>As we strolledfrom the Old Star&amp;rsquo;salcoves to thegallery, fledglingpromises settledone by oneon the Serpentine.In the display roomegg-white wallsmade art ofyour rainbow hair.Later, dropspitter-patteredon your brolly.A tender kisstook me toflight, cleaving the pathof by-passers,scuffle-cached,los..</description>
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			<title>A Riddle</title>
			<description>An ABAB rhyming riddle of eight lines. Can you guess the subject?</description>
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