it was because the verse, in an amazing way, put words to the feelings i had had all the years i was unconverted – and that i recently had deliberately put behind me. i was grasping for the wind

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It was because the verse, in an amazing way, put words to the feelings I had had all the years I was unconverted – and that I recently had deliberately put behind me. I was grasping for the wind