We are more than components in this world, we are meant to experience it in every part. Please, let me take the time to show you some of the aspects of the ceramic arts: a historic utility whose versatile applications have left it enduring millennia as shattered-shard artifacts and a continual staple of modern technology. Writing, too, has its throes and habits (and we writers must all to stick together, or there shall be no peers surviving to criticize).

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