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Dec 2023
Scales not dropped from eyes.
   We lived a fiction of quiet lies,
   for the children we still pretend.
   Perfect lives that will never end.
   We smile, secretly hope we die.
   Worlds collide in blink of an eye.
   Our stage explodes a fire a flash
   our truth revealed in the ash.
William J Donovan
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William J Donovan  76/M/New Bern, NC
(76/M/New Bern, NC)   
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