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At That Moment, Beauty Itself Struck Me As A Kind Of Painful Melancholy.

The Corridor Couldn't Have Smelled More Strongly Of Fish Guts If We Had Actually Been Inside A Fish.

For A Flicker Of A Moment I Imagined A World Completely Different From The One I'd Always Known, A World In Which I Was Treated With Fairness, Even Kindness-- A World In Which Fathers Didn't Sell Their Daughters.

And When I Raised Myself To Look At The Man Who'd Spoken, I Had A Feeling Of Leaving My Misery Behind Me There On The Stone Wall.

I Can See You Have A Great Deal Of Water In Your Personality. Water Never Waits. It Changes Shape And Flows Around Things, And Finds The Secret Paths No One Else Has Thought About - The Tiny Hole Through The Roof Or The Bottom Of A Box. There's No Doubt It's The Most Versatile Of The Five Elements. It Can Wash Away Earth; It Can Put Out Fire, It Can Wear A Piece Of Metal Down And Sweep It Away. Even Wood, Which Is Its Natural Complement, Can't Survive Without Being Nurtured By Water And Yet, You Haven't Drawn On Those Strengths In Living Your Life, Have You?