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And Anatolia! Embrace us with your fruitful soil. Let us be baptized in your cool healing streams. Let us be purified in Tigris and Euphrates, the vital sources of Mesopotamia. Let us watch a Sema ritual in Konya and feel the peaceful spirit of Mevlana and his whirling Dervishes. Let us seclude ourselves and live in peace until we pass away in this holy ground. Saint John knew Mary would live her final days in stillness in Ephesus. And so he took her there. And so she did live in still
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