There was a woman who lived in the woods. She never cut her hair and it grew long and thick and fast and strong. Over the years it tangled up in the branches of the trees and the strangles of the bushes, and eventually it stretched out in strands across the whole of the forest.
And the woman sat in her chair by the fire and rocked herself back and forth and waited, patiently, for those she might draw near.
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Notes:
1. Written August 2014
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