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Thank you, Cynthia, for this
beautiful welcome, Cynthia, dear

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friend from way back.

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How lovely to see you this
evening, though at a distance.

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Thank you, Tyler and
Paola, and everyone here.

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Thank you to the signers.

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I hope you enjoy
signing my poems.

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So the full title of my book
is the Holy and Broken Bliss:

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Poems in Plague Time.

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And by plague time is
meant both the period

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of COVID, which I imagine
everyone here remembers,

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and the sickness of our
society, of our body politic.

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And at the same time, the thread
that runs through this book

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has to do with aging and
what we are facing as we age.

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So the book meanders back
and forth among these themes.

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And then ends with
a whole section

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on my own spiritual quest.

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So thank you all for being here.

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This is a great thrill for me.

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I'm very sorry I'm not here
totally personally in the body,

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but I'm very happy to
be here in this way.

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