I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.
Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there _ tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.
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Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there _ tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.
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