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TearsThe first woman who ever weptwas appalled at what stungher eyes and ran down her cheeks. Saltwater. Seawater.How was it possible?Hadn't she and the manspent many days movingupland to where the grassflourished, where the streamquenched their thirst with sweet water?How could she have carried these sea dropsas if they were precious seeds;where could she have stowed them?She looked at the watchful gazellesand the heavy-lidded frogs;she looked at glass-eyed birdsand nervous, black-eyed mice.None of them wept, not even the fishthat dripped in her hands when she caught them.Not even the man. Only shecarried the sea inside her body