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 They were silent, then they spoke slowly, and their words were halting, like the words of a child learning to speak for the first time:

"We are one alone  and only  and we love you who are one  alone  and only."

We looked into each other's eyes and we knew that the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly.

And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.