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Guess who got time off from the farm? Three weeks, entirely mine and I still get paid. I needed the break.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
