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did you?

Did you know it’s illegal to own a single guinea pig in Switzerland, because they get lonely?
Agnes said solitude and freedom are the same

Did you know that every map is a work of fiction?
Robert said the sea is always calm and the weather always good on a map

Did you know a human heart beats 100,000 times a day?
James said go the way your blood beats

Did you know a rock warms up when held in your palm?
Rainer said try to love the questions themselves

Did you know that frogs can see colour in the dark?
Mary said someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness

Did you know the Q has the tail of a monkey?
Anne said love resides in the place where words fail

Did you know I placed this pause here …





So that I could hear you breathe?

Did you?

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Author Anne Farrer is a poet, essayist and self-proclaimed critic-at-large. She lives by the sea and dreams about a certain crow.

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