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 | | They carry their ceremonial bowls filled with sacred local gifts: Gangajala, water from the sacred Bhagmati River, Godugdha, cows milk; Vilva, wood apple, Aegle marmelos leaves, Dhaturo, thorn apple, and Rudraksha, beads strung on a yellow thread. |
 | | I almost said, as I used to, I cannot find my feet, but that phrase has lost its meaning. |
 | | I ride to Wurmsbach, the Dominican convent where the nuns Gregorian Chant sustained me during so many summers. |
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