C5 FIVE

Form and Dignity

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Love can transpose to form and dignity.

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

AS DAWN TORE the night from the world in brilliant shards of oranges and yellows, I did the job expected of me and surveyed the land. In the prison from which I'd been temporarily freed, darkness reigned supreme and constant. We had no sun, no life, no warmth