Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.
– Gloria D Gonsalves
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- Was this what humans were really like? They seemed like drooling idiots to me. I was shocked they walk and breathe at the same time? – Tara Shuler
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- It doesn’t cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees. – RVM
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- The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful – Peter F Hamilton
- Don’t try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start. – Jeff Olson
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