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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

Ethel Waters, American Musician

Dew, Earth, Flowers, Nothing

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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

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Ethel Waters, American Musician

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