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Kreyon Bondye pa gen gòm

God's pencil has no eraser

— Haitian proverb —

fate, faith

What is decided above is not revised. Said at deaths and at unlikely turns of luck alike.

Kreyon Bondye pa gen gòm — God's pencil has no eraser
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