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Thanks to the human heart by which we live,

Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, 1807

CONTENTS

PART ONE
THE MEMORY JAR

Chapter 1