Someone I work with just told me that their spouse informed them that poison ivy lays dormant in your body for six years, and can resurface at any time. This sounds highly unlikely to me, as I understand the rash to be the skin's reaction to the oils of the plant.

Has anyone heard of this?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.