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Well, love and death
have so much in common

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with one another.

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It's really amazing.

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And I'm going to read one
more poem about being a child.

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And this has, altogether,
a different theme

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from the first one.

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Can you hear me back there?

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Can you hear me back there?

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Yeah?

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"The apple-- the apple I
held and bit into was for me,

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the friend who spoke
to me was for me,

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my father and
mother were for me,

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the little girl with
brown hair and brown eyes

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who looked and smiled shyly
and ran away, was for me.

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Though I never dared
follow her because I

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feared she would not understand
that she was for me alone.

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The bed I slept in was
for me, the clothes

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I wore were for
me, the kindness I

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showed a dead bird, one
winter, by placing it

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in my warm pocket, was for me.

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The time I went to the rescue
of my sister from a bully,

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was to prove myself, for me.

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The music on the radio, the
books I was beginning to read,

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all were for me.

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I had hold of a good thing, me.

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And I was going to give of my
contentment to others, for me.

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And when I gave, it
was taken with a smile

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that I recognized as my own.

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When I would be given,
I had found that for me,

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was everyone else's way.

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And I became anxious
and suspicious.

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I held back a bit when I
exchanged postcards, pictures

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of baseball players, with
a close look at what I

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was getting in return.

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To make sure that I was
getting what I could like.

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And when my parents bought
me a new pair of gloves,

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after I had lost
the first pair, I

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was sure that for me, was
not as pure in feeling

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as the first time.

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Because I was very sorry
that my parents had

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to spend an extra dollar
to replace my gloves.

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And so, when I looked up
at the night stars, for me,

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remained silent.

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And when my grandmother
died, for me,

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became a little boy sent
on an errand of candles

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to place at the feet
and head of a coffin."

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