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Coming here
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was easier for you( h: s B% z& S5 u
Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands
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Days inched into years
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come and go back1 @1 d; H9 E9 [7 y$ t9 Y$ o: K! I3 s) E
go and come back. b6 ~) M& P2 P0 i1 w1 [( n
We never did
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/ {) s" _+ [9 ^& b' wleave our children 1 ^! x: M! @/ q7 x' A' y
and their children ! c( ]/ ~# B0 G6 T
settled down in theirs
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. t; Z, v& N6 G3 d-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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