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"The endless shaking of clear bead necklaces"

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"the rain slaked still more"

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Staring at the

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"But then they always awoke to the tattering drum"

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"It had been raining for 7 years"

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the wind blew around them.

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It was as if in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus.

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"They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall."

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a few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks and their mouths.

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"Oh look look" she said trembling.  They came slowly to look at her opened palm. In the center of it, cupped and huge, and huge was a single raindrop. She began to cry, looking at it.

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"A boom of thunder startled them and like leaves before a new hurricane."

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"like leaves before a new hurricane they tumbled upon each other and ran

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thousands upon thousands of days, compounded and filled from on end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the island.

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"She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair."

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"They turned through the doorway to the room in the sound of storm and thunder, lighting on their faces, blue and terrible."

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"raining steadily."

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"They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking of clear bead necklaces upon the room."

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They heard the gigantic sound of rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.