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Coming here
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was easier for you
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set the clock's dark hands$ i6 P) ~/ r: D! @8 n2 E8 B, b
with a view of returning to home ground( b& ]& `4 J- B. q
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I watched others
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go and come back1 ~' w8 z$ V. ~; B
We never did
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leave our children 5 L; N/ ?) ]! X0 a1 U }* R: [
and their children
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- J1 t X$ j* @- I-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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