tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679918128053118162024-02-20T00:01:10.661+08:00Emotional Rusha sanctuary for the soul; remnants of emotions unspoken, unheard and may be deemed trivial. A kaleidoscope of feelings. Lofty sensations only a sensitive heart can fathom.
(Note: all the poems featured in my blog are my original compositions unless otherwise stated.)Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-71855730449712441022015-11-24T08:14:00.002+08:002015-11-24T08:14:47.475+08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us,"</span></b></div>
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(Khaled Hosseini, And the mountains echoed)</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In the stillness and quiet of the night,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I slide from reality.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As though suspended in space,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lost in the vast, cavernous emptiness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Somewhere, a clock ticks by</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Engulfing the last morsel of good memories,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Seeing shadows through the haze,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">An amputated leg crushing one's heart.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Reality has always been a fantasy.</span></b></div>
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(((asheil.jan. 6,2015.tuesday.1006hrs.)))</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Step right in, love</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Like the breeze, constant and comforting,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A healing balm for a troubled heart</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That has walked too long down rocky shores.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>And in one deep breath,</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Peace at last comes to reside.</i></span></b></div>
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(((asheil.august 24, 2014.sunday.0738hrs.)))</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where a cannonball bounces in the shadows</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where pleasure takes a walk,</span></span></div>
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(((asheil.february 22, 2014.thursday.1020hrs.)))</div>
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Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-41060261215722594802014-09-09T10:48:00.003+08:002014-09-09T10:48:49.135+08:00Message in a Bottle ( Melodies of the Heart Diaries-1)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So here I am</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">facing the same old cycle of holding on and letting go</span>;<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> pulled apart between two directions. Making plans but never have the strength to put them into action. I look at the world through misty windows, nothing is as it seems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They say messages in a bottle are a thing of the past.. But here I am, with all the pent up emotions, all these words that I couldn't tell you; wishing that someday, this will find you and you'll know it's about you and me. You'll look back at this point where it could have been us. How would you feel?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know if I'll get through this. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. Spending each day looking out on the horizon wishing that the same bottle will wash up on my shore, this time, with a message from you or will destiny pass me by again? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today I feel the resolve to get on without you. But how will tomorrow find me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b><br /><b>Something as poignant as a work of art,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b><br /><b>But something so simple as Hello,</b></span></div>
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Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-54907281962039121642014-01-06T19:30:00.000+08:002014-01-06T19:30:13.136+08:00Untamed Heart<br />
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(((asheil.january 6.2014.monday.1920hrs.)))</div>
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Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-60812278981847670822013-11-25T10:04:00.001+08:002013-11-25T10:05:01.082+08:00HeART Angel<div style="text-align: center;">
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Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-58902505816177549172013-11-15T19:51:00.001+08:002013-11-15T19:51:42.549+08:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>I'm just starting through my day,<br />Sipping my coffee.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>You drift into my mind.<br />And I whisper your name.</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>It's like saying it for the first time.<br />Closing my eyes,<br />Giving in to the thrill.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>And I smiled.</b></i></span><br />
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Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-30934041964479945802013-10-16T21:16:00.000+08:002013-10-26T12:04:28.687+08:00Jeepney Ride<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've been debating whether I should go through with this article because this is too personal for me. I'm not one to put the spotlight on myself. I'd rather stay on the sidelines, content to watch and observe. But I figured I should at least confront my fears for the first and last time. Putting them into words just might be cathartic and maybe some people can take a glimpse of who I am, that certain part I conceal. <br /><br />All these thoughts came all at once, like an avalanche, right in the middle of my conversation with my niece. I couldn't stop it, the floodgates of memories opened. It was a very sentimental day for me. Here she is, at 19 years old, celebrating milestones without her mom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When she was about 3, her mom and dad left her to me to look after one summer. I was still in college then. So I have to juggle between going to school and taking care of her. And as she sleeps right next to me, she has this habit of cuddling up to me and trying to open my eyes and say "Gising Na." (Wake Up). When I get home from school, she'd squeal and say my name out loud running to the door to greet me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When I finished college, I declined some job offers and decided to help my sister take care of her and her siblings for a while. I couldn't very well say no to my sister when she asked me. I used to tutor her, make mock examination papers, her chaperon on school-sponsored field trips. Just like any other kid, she used to have tantrums. Looking back, I am still amazed at how I kept peace between her and her brothers, Kitkat and Ken; fighting over toys, TV time, comparisons and all the little things that can make you lose your patience if you don't remind yourself they're just kids and that once upon a time you were just like that. When I see them today, I can't help but be proud, I helped raised these kids. When they come to visit, they always sleep with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I can still remember the night her mom, my sister Nyrissa, died. My father, my brothers and my sister and I flew to Manila to be on her bedside. It was February of 2006. A week before she died, my sister Lysa and I used to take turns to be with Ate Jack, as she was fondly called, massaging her arms because she said they were numb. She lost a lot of weight then, undergone mastectomy and she's so gaunt. After just one cycle of chemotherapy, her oncologist said the cancer has metastasized and her cancer was now Stage 4. One morning, as I was talking to her massaging her arm, she just stared at me, saying nothing. Just gave me that piercing, melancholic look. I can see she was very very sad but I didn't look into her eyes because I know if I did, I would cry. And I didn't want her to see me weak. I didn't want to acknowledge she was giving up fighting cancer. I excused myself and ran to the bathroom and cried. We were not that close when I was younger. We're opposites. She's feisty and outspoken, I am more reserved and shy. In fact, I'm a little scared of her. A year before she was diagnosed with the Big C, she came to Davao. Just her. She said she wanted to spend time alone with me and ate Lysa. We visited Ama (as we call my father), slept in the same bed, talking and laughing all night. I didn't give it too much thought. I figured she just missed us. When I lived with them, she used to request that I cook at least twice a week. She says she loves my cooking. Just the way Mama used to do it. I used to bring her her favorite coffee with peanut butter sandwich on some nights especially when she gets so sweet in asking me. "Sige na please," she'd say. It was an unspoken act of love. I never really told her how much I love her. I hope those gestures helped. <br /><br />But when she died, it was deja vu, that same moment my mother died. Again of cancer. Ysa was just 12 years old and will be graduating from grade school. When my father said "she's gone", it's like losing my mom all over again. And this time, the pain is twice as devastating. How do you explain to her kids to make them understand. She, Kitkat and Ken were with me and my heart was broken into pieces looking at my niece and nephews. It's like tearing a part of your soul; you're too helpless to do something. <br /><br />My mom died a month shy of my college graduation. And the only thing she asked of my father was to escort me on my graduation. There she was, on her deathbed, and all she was thinking was my welfare. I would never, ever question my mother's love for me. There was a time I did. I really am my mother's favorite, I realized. On the day of my graduation, I was fighting so hard not to look at my father because I know I would break down. I was biting my inner cheek and pinch myself so I won't cry. Deep inside, I was a mess. All through my education, my mom was a constant figure; attending PTA meetings, getting up on stage to pin my ribbon at the end of each school year, agonizing over a difficult homework and waiting up for me when I get home later than usual. I know my father was fighting just as hard to contain his emotions. I take after him in that sense, never the showy type or affectionate in public. Up to now, I know he has not recovered from my mother's death. Eversince then, I can only count the times he has come to our house in the city or stayed at the room he and my mom shared. I can understand his grief. He preferred to stay in our house in the country, right near the place where we buried Mama. I know when he sees us, he see Mama. I get too emotional whenever I see him. The thought that I might lose him just terrifies me. I am not so sure I can go through that again. Losing a loved one has, I think, made me scared of getting too attached with people because in my mind they would all leave. I was putting up a wall, the need to shield myself from pain. But you do get attached to some, putting yourself at a vulnerable risk of falling apart when they leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My elder sister has this notion of me being so ambivalent and distant and detached. She just doesn't know the inner battle I'm fighting. Because, contrary to what she believes, I feel too much. I hurt more than she does. At least she's not afraid to show her emotions. She's the sappy one. She cries easily whereas I, I'm left with all the pent-up emotions. The trouble with pretending to be strong; you suffer alone.<br /><br />I wonder how our lives would turn out had one or two variables were changed. Next year, Ysa will be graduating from college. I can't help but think if only her mom was still here. What her life would have been if she were here. And I kept on brooding about that, melancholy gripping me hard. And it's not out of anger or bitterness. Just the usual sentimental reasons with a tinge of sadness for what might have been. I felt my niece and nephews were robbed of something essential. Just as I was when I lost my mom. And I will always have this desperate yearning not bound by time or space. <br /><br />You never fully get over a loss, you just learn to live with it. There's that void nobody can fill. Not even time.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Clutching these precious, imperfect aspects,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I make mistakes,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can be brutally honest, </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wearing my heart on my sleeves,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">But I can hide too,</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My vulnerability I'm afraid to show.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And this is my Journey. </span></i></b>Sheila Calehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05836205228339578361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-667991812805311816.post-41446638426764823192013-07-15T21:54:00.000+08:002013-07-18T19:07:43.694+08:00La Isla de San Pablo<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Far away on the horizon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lone soul walks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Taking each painstaking step towards the unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Further still, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The red star glows</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its light not enough to ward the chills</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nor bring warmth to the broken wings of the sparrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eerie shadows on the water,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meaningless play of light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lone soul walks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oblivious to the sights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ironically, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mind is in uncontrollable frenzy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thoughts and emotions whirling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lost in a mindless cadence of ancient rhythm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then, it snaps,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sanity and feeling collided.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lone soul on their wake,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scarred, beaten and unmoving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everything is still,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shadows have drifted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A chill grips the scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And on the big vast blue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Red star glows no more.</span></div>
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(((asheil.september 27, 2000.wednesday.1000hrs.))) </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I awaken from sporadic dreams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Only to beg time</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">To return me to my deep slumber,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Catch the tiny wisps of vague fantasies,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Hazy illusions I wholly seek.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Blurry visions I long to hold,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Those bittersweet images sheathed in silk,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Tiny droplets of golden hopes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Strewn beneath the coverlet of haughtiness,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Viciously sweeping into my wakened self.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I remained Stoic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Just like that,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>I watched the dream's demise.</i><b><i> </i></b></span></span></div>
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(((asheil.august 6.2011.saturday.1046hrs.)))</div>
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