The Rich Metaphor of a Marriage

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"I belong to you like this plot of ground that I planted with flowers and sweet smelling herbs. Sweet is it stream dug by your hand refreshing in the North wind, a lovely place to wander in your hand in my hand," she writes. "It's almost like thou art to me as a garden implies an internal topography, right? So it's like, well, you're really talking about the richness of someone's mind."

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