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NNadir

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6. "They existed./ We can be. Be and be/ better. For they existed."

Reply to FM123 (Original post)

Sun Sep 20, 2020, 05:10 PM

Sep 2020

Great lines.

Thanks much for posting in these dark times.

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When Great Trees Fall - poem by Maya Angelou [View all] FM123 Sep 2020 OP

K&R for visibility. Thanks. nt tblue37 Sep 2020 #1

Thank you for the gift of that poem. demmiblue Sep 2020 #2

Perfect - KT2000 Sep 2020 #3

Read it again (and again)! demmiblue Sep 2020 #4

I am not a religious person, but I find myself reading the poem again and again FM123 Sep 2020 #5

"They existed./ We can be. Be and be/ better. For they existed." NNadir Sep 2020 #6

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