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Take a deep breath.
Make a wish.
Think of a word.
Think of a man.
See a man in your mind
as you say The Word
in your head.
Think of the sound
that The Word
makes in your mind.
Hear the sound of The Word
as you say it aloud.
Think of a woman that you love -
a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife.
Think of your love for her.
Think of her love for you.
Be embraced and enveloped by it,
engulfed and absorbed in it.
Wonder in it. Think of love.
Think of a woman you love
hearing the sound of The Word,
making the sound of The Word,
thinking the sound of The Word
that you first took a deep breath for.
Take a deep breath.
Make a wish.
Think of a word.
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