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for you had been a cold front yourself lately
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the tension I felt / between the expected and actual / was like that time I came to you, ready / to say goodbye for good, for you had been / a cold front yourself lately, and as I walked in / you laughed and lifted me up in your arms
Linda Pastan ~ known to me from a standardized test, the SAT? came home and wrote down the line, I was 17 or.
