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      “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations.  
            Men had drowned in seas like that.”―Robert Jordan  
 
he was a conquerer  
       of oceans and big lakes.  
              he had all that it takes:  
                     titanic metaphor!
 
                            one day, when eve was red,  
                                   he swallowed half the lake—  
                                          more than his lungs could take.  
                                                 the pool became his bed.  
 
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