“Set me as a seal upon your heart,
“Set me as a seal upon your heart,“Set me as a seal upon your heart,as a seal upon your arm,
as a seal upon your arm,as a seal upon your arm,for love is strong as death…”
for love is strong as death…”for love is strong as death…”(Song of Solomon 8:6, English Standard Version)
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It was on the day she died that they finally pulled down the Water Tower.
The final demise of the Tower, which had stood for so long as a mainstay of Little Bassington’s post-industrial heritage, came not with a tumultuous roar that signified its collapse in a moment of heart-stopping suddenness, nor in a breath-taking spectacle of intensifying destruction; instead it happened gradually, minute by minute, hour by hour, almost in slow motion. When it ended, finally – the s
