There is just a little music, each other and the urgency of what is at stake. Which is all they had. For that work, the work of language is to get out of the way. (Toni Morrison)

There is just a little music, each other and the urgency of what is at stake. Which is all they had. For that work, the work of language is to get out of the way.

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