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Before she became fire, she was water.
Quenching of thirst of every dying creature.
She gave and gave
until she turned from sea to desert.
But instead of dying of the heat,
the sadness, the heartache,
she took all of her pain
and from her own ashes became fire.

~Nikita Gill

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