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As I made my way uphill, I understood why An-Mei chose this place for healing. Conifers were pillars connecting earth and sky. Their leaves were as green as their trunks were grey, and the air was pure. Each breath was a cleansing. I heard sparrows trilling, and a chorus of cicadas. My breathing fell into steady rhythms, as if in counterpoint. There was nothing else but earth and sky. My head, once so full of noise, quieted. Each thing flowed into the next, indistinguishable, as water within water.

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