How it was. How it was the earth could open up under you an… - White Oleander

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How it was. How it was the earth could open up under you and swallow you whole, close above you as if you never were. Like Persephone snatched by the god. The ground opened up and out he came, sweeping her into the black chariot. Then down they plunged, under the ground, into darkness, and the earth closed over her head, and she was gone, as if she had never been.

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Janet Elizabeth Fitch (born November 9, 1955) is an American novelist.

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