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Even the doves were in mourning. The trees seemed to sigh at her leave-taking, and the windows of each building looked, to her, like sorrowful eyes. (first lines)

— Kathleen Alcalá Treasures in Heaven (2000)

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She could drop her shyness the way she dropped it to recite a speech or a poem, then step back into it like a cloak.

When children went every day to school to learn to live in a world that no longer existed.

After all, what is the passing of time but a diamond turned to dust?

This is how they took back the world - step by step, song by song.

In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

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