"When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'"

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And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

— Theodore Roethke