And maybe that is enough. Because before poetry, before prayer, before the love letter and the curse, there was this: two people, no shared cradle, and the desperate, generous act of making meaning anyway.
: The term emerged during the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean basin. At the time, Byzantine Greeks and Muslims used the blanket term "Franks" to describe all Western Europeans.
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