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And then the need to live
with a sense of time that

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allows room for change, that
is we don't accept ourselves

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as we are and we would like
at least to have enough time

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to do what we can to
make some changes.

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It's called His New Life.

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Now he'd be stricken to find the
road on his usual Sunday drive

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washed out near the
quarry, forcing him to take

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a detour that passed her house.

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But in his new life, the life
he can feel slowly approaching,

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it will offer an opportunity.

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Now he would want to
find her house abandoned.

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Its windows boarded, its
rotted roof open to rain.

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But in his new life,
he'll be relieved

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to see lights burning
in every room, relieved

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to hear sprightly music
spilling from open windows.

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In his old life
before he could wish

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her a chance for
a festive evening,

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he'd require evidence
of a long penance

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for letting her feelings
for him give way

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to feelings for someone else.

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But in his new
life, he will simply

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assume that after an
interval of remorse,

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she did her best to be
more constant, dependable

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as the sun rising on schedule
to make another morning.

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Is your life today
fuller than his?

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That kind of question
belongs to his old life.

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Whereas his new life will
be conspicuous for leaving

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behind all comparisons.

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Now it's true he's comparing
the life he's living

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to the life he will be living.

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But in the future, the
two will flow together

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to make one river, one that's
content to go on flowing

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without once asking what
it might be if it were

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free of the mud and
gravel beneath it

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and the banks penning
it in on either side.

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