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Coming here
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Homesick
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with a view of returning to home ground
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Days inched into years* n% D/ h! L7 U, T7 j
I watched others
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go and come back5 y2 y+ d* v3 l g: C" l
We never did
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leave our children
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1 _- `" {- k6 B$ U, u* R-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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