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		<description><![CDATA[We run, fleet of foot, over the sand, laughing as we relish the joy of running and the smell of the sea in our nostrils. &#8220;The cove is up ahead!&#8221; I say, climbing over the rocks smoothed by mother sea and years, noticing &#8211; not once, not twice &#8211; the green limpets encrusted on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8421269&amp;post=283&amp;subd=jolantru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do you want to study in the City?&#8221; Shu, my friend. She reminds me of burnt sugar and white clouds. She is the girl the boys are always talking about. No magical gift of her own, but she fixes the silver fish &#8211; the carriers flown by both men and women &#8211; with her father. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8421269&amp;post=250&amp;subd=jolantru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Braids Threads of your own choice Braid according to your personal preference ~*~ I find sitting under the casuarina a comfort. The sun is warm, its rays golden on the needles. Mother loves the tree. It has a story. It lived through The Great Eruption and survives, thriving in the sea air and sandy soil. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8421269&amp;post=247&amp;subd=jolantru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a heretic. Heretic. I savor the word in my mouth. Sweet, like peanut candy. Heretic. My hands go through the motions of scooping sticky batter into the curved ladle. Curved like the half-moon. The oysters go in next and I smother them with a layer of the white gooey liquid. The ladle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8421269&amp;post=242&amp;subd=jolantru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I listen to my mother teaching the young ones under the casuarina. The children sit rapt, not even distracted by the sparkling trinkets and glass pieces hanging on the casuarina. It is our praying tree, our wishing tree – and yet, the children listen as if they are sea sponges soaking in everything. My mother&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jolantru.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8421269&amp;post=238&amp;subd=jolantru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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