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Coming here
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was easier for you
2 W. G1 S6 q7 R; B& y3 ]Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands
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I watched others
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go and come back
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nor can we now- {5 t0 w: l" Z r2 w2 O
resettle in the old country' h: g. S; {( _% x, c
leave our children % k U8 v2 M# Z2 V
and their children w7 Z# }5 ?3 o
settled down in theirs
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' ~% {5 d7 |0 k% j% }-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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