When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gyps — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gyps — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gyps — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gyps — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gyps — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
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When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they should! ...For they are 'in' life.

— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
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