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Resurrection

In my time I looked at my hands and I understood: I resemble my mother. Life flows out from my joints and comes back to itself through my fingertips, according to the season. I juggle with life, I give it and take it back. Either I keep my hands in prayer, or I place them on the bare ground, I am just like her. Yorick died to me not so long ago. He was gentle and subdued in the hands of Hamlet and it was him looking back at me from the mirror of Mary Magdalene. From the smoke of my cigarettes, little black spiders appeared between my fingers and I smashed them one by one... but today they are resurrected, sadly jolting on the dirty floor. I did not know that even they can come back to life. Today I speak to Yorick's son, whilst through the pulse of my fingers yesterday's sun still passes towards tomorrow: you too, your Kindness, you are alike your father.

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Date: 2/18/2017 7:25:00 AM
We all carry parts of our past with us whether they came from our parents or our choices. Well done Cristina.
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Cristina M Moldoveanu
Date: 2/18/2017 7:33:00 AM
Thank you Phil, we partly ARE our ancestors.

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