The Sparrow Quantum Theory all cloaked in the weight

all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations

and turns words inside out

mysterious and sometimes mischievous

where there is trauma there is resilience and

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