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After her daily workouts, she came
in to shower. Each day, the older woman discovered a little
more. She learned the unspoken rule. Eyes averted, no conversation
wanted. Smile and direct eyes, okay to talk. She kept her
eyes averted.
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Translating poetry is serious business and not to be taken
lightly. Your job as translator is to not only pass the
meaning of the poem into another language, but to respect
and honor its spirit.
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Abdul goes to his room, collecting his things: prayer beads,
lungis, the red dye for the time he will grow a beard. It
is getting later. "Almost everything is prepared."
He thinks, "Almost." He waits, listening to the
ticking of the clock in the hallway. He waits until the
silence comes.
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In Medieval times, isolated villages
and multiple languages might have befuddled the unenlightened
traveler, but commoner and noble alike understood the message
of herbs. Herbs spoke of love in ways that no flower ever
would and they sculpted enigmatic music that we still hum
today.
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Peggy Vincent's Baby Catcher:
Chronicles of a Modern Midwife breaks old stereotypes
that depict midwives as the incompetent, ill trained, mystic
spiritualists, granny midwives, old hags trained by witch
doctors.
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Near tears, I shivered in the pouring rain in
front of Westminster Abbey and wished that I had paid attention.
The tour director, I now remembered, said that the bus would
leave at 11:20, not that we should meet at that time. After
frantically searching the Abbey and nearby streets in vain,
I realized the bus had left without me and I was stranded.
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