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    A young girl recalls sitting on a swing with her cousin when she was 4 or 5 years old. As the swing lunged, she felt her cousin against her in a way that awakened new feelings within her. Later, they climbed a tree together, remaining innocent of the feelings their encounter had stirred. Now older, she searches cities' suburbs, trying to regain the innocence of her childhood and recapture feelings from sitting with her cousin on the swing long ago.

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    A young girl recalls sitting on a swing with her cousin when she was 4 or 5 years old. As the swing lunged, she felt her cousin against her in a way that awakened new feelings within her. Later, they climbed a tree together, remaining innocent of the feelings their encounter had stirred. Now older, she searches cities' suburbs, trying to regain the innocence of her childhood and recapture feelings from sitting with her cousin on the swing long ago.

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    Looking For A Cousin On A Swing by A.K Ramanujan

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    A young girl recalls sitting on a swing with her cousin when she was 4 or 5 years old. As the swing lunged, she felt her cousin against her in a way that awakened new feelings within her. Later, they climbed a tree together, remaining innocent of the feelings their encounter had stirred. Now older, she searches cities' suburbs, trying to regain the innocence of her childhood and recapture feelings from sitting with her cousin on the swing long ago.

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    Looking for a Cousin on a Swing

    - A.K. Ramanujan

    When she was four or five


    she sat on a village swing
    and her cousin, six or seven,
    sat himself against her;
    with every lunge of the swing
    she felt him
    in the lunging pits
    of her feeling;
    and afterwards
    we climbed a tree, she said,

    not very tall, but full of leaves


    like those of a fig tree,

    and we were very innocent


    about it.

    Now she looks for the swing


    in cities with fifteen suburbs
    and tries to be innocent
    about it

    not only on the crotch of a tree


    that looked as if it would burst
    under every leaf
    into a brood of scarlet figs

    if someone suddenly sneezed.

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