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Water, Water Everywhere
Posted on June 24, 2017 by Jeanne Roberts
“Water, water everywhere, but nary a drop to drink,” to paraphrase Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem, the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, written in 1798. Coleridge was describing an imaginary sailor stranded on the ocean without drinking water. The words may be more[...]
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