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						I'm so close to you that I'm far apart, 
						So completely merged that I'm separate, 
						So vastly exposed that I'm concealed, 
						So whole and sound that I'll never be healed. 
						#1121, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi 
						Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988). 
						Translated by Zara Houshmand 
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