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Coming here! f: `- |+ {: B5 G7 o3 p
Settling down& V/ q: I5 p4 o: l% x
was easier for you
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I measured the miles
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Days inched into years
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come and go back
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: A, D9 `$ ~" Q8 Q3 _" A% n2 B) RWe never did* s: @+ E: u8 C* ^' o! |
nor can we now: N- N4 t- V! q- }
resettle in the old country L' J- m U0 ?; Q
leave our children . }8 I9 G* k) W' A: _
and their children 1 A* {$ B" C/ v
settled down in theirs$ V! l$ C+ ^% Y
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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