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La Dispute - Such Small Hands
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La Dispute - Woman (In Mirror)
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La Dispute - Andria
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La Dispute - King Park
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La Dispute - Why It Scares Me
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La Dispute - I Shaved My Head
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La Dispute - Nobody, Not Even the Rain
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La Dispute - All Our Bruised Bodies And The Whole Heart Shrinks
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La Dispute - Autofiction detail
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La Dispute - No One Was Driving The Car
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La Dispute - Twas The Night Before Christmas
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La Dispute - A Broken Jar
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La Dispute - A Poem
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La Dispute - Fall Down, Never Get Back Up Again
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La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit
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La Dispute - Bury Your Flames
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La Dispute - Future Wars
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La Dispute - I See Everything
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La Dispute - Man With Hands And Ankles Bound
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La Dispute - Woman (Reading)
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La Dispute - A Letter
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La Dispute - Damaged Goods
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La Dispute - For Mayor in Splitsville
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La Dispute - I Dreamt Of A Room With All My Friends I Could Not Get In
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La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
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La Dispute - One
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La Dispute - Safer in the Forest / Love Song for Poor Michigan
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La Dispute - Said the King To the River
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La Dispute - See You In Vancouver
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La Dispute - Self-Portrait Backwards
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La Dispute - Shall Never Lose It's Power
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La Dispute - Sibling Fistfight at Mom's Fiftieth / The Un-Sound
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La Dispute - Six
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La Dispute - Stay Happy There
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La Dispute - Sunday Morning, At a Funeral
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La Dispute - The Field
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La Dispute - The Last Lost Continent
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La Dispute - Two
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La Dispute - View From Our Bedroom Window
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La Dispute - You And I In Unison
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La Dispute - A
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La Dispute - A Departure
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La Dispute - A Word Of Welcome And Of Warning
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La Dispute - Edit Your Hometown
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La Dispute - Eight
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La Dispute - End Times Sermon
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La Dispute - Four
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La Dispute - Fulton Street I
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La Dispute - Harder Harmonies
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La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi
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La Dispute - In Northern Michigan
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La Dispute - Nine
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La Dispute - Sad Prayers For Guilty Bodies
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La Dispute - Scenes from Highways 1981-2009
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La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
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La Dispute - Ten
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La Dispute - The Castle Builders
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La Dispute - The Surgeon And The Scientist
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La Dispute - Then Again, Maybe You Were Right
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La Dispute - There You Are (Hiding Place)
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La Dispute - Thirteen
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La Dispute - Three
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La Dispute - Top-Sellers Banquet
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La Dispute - Twelve
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La Dispute - Untitled
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La Dispute - 35
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La Dispute - Anxiety Panorama
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La Dispute - Edward Benz, 27 Times
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La Dispute - Eleven
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La Dispute - Environmental Catastrophe Film
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La Dispute - Extraordinary Dinner Party
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La Dispute - Fairmount
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La Dispute - First Reactions After Falling Through the Ice
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La Dispute - Five
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La Dispute - Footsteps At The Pond
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La Dispute - Fulton Street Ii
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La Dispute - He Is Here, He Is Not Afraid
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La Dispute - How I Feel
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La Dispute - Landlord Calls The Sheriff In
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La Dispute - Last Blues
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La Dispute - Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles
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La Dispute - Objects In Space
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La Dispute - Only Everything Below
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La Dispute - Rhodonite And Grief
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La Dispute - Saturation Diver
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La Dispute - Seven
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La Dispute - Steve
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La Dispute - The Child We Lost
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La Dispute - To Withstand The Force Of Storms
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La Dispute - You Ascendant
Four
La Dispute
One day, while she was sitting beside the great river, peering across, she saw a handsome young shepherd boy leading his flock through the pasture. Immediately, she fell in love.
Thereafter, she became terribly disheartened, knowing that, due to her duties at the loom, she would be unable to pursue that love.
The king, aware that by his bidding such despair had befallen her, felt great remorse, and arranged for her to marry the shepherd.
There marriage was one of happiness from the start, and everyday thereafter they grew happier and happier.
However, in immersing herself in her marriage, the princess had neglected her weaving and the great king became angry.
Unable to reconcile with that anger, the great king banished each of the lovers to opposite sides of the great river, allowing them only to meet once each year: on the seventh day of the seventh month.
On that day, a ferryman would carry the shepherd boy across the river to the princess, and return him home at day's end.
However, if the princess has not fulfilled her obligations at the loom the king floods the river, and the two can not meet.