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Aug 2022
“One in one hundred.”
She says, “Those are some slim odds,
You’ll bury a child”

“One in one hundred.”
But countless are gone too young -
So don’t count the odds.

“One in one hundred”
Doesn’t provide any peace,
When kids become ghosts.
I wrote this after the latest school shooting. My ******* therapist told me not to be scared because the chances of it happening to my kid were “one in one hundred.” I hate those odds.
TB
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