Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marginalian

“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”

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