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Re: Thanks. You never know what a kid that age is thinking!
posted by
2902
on December 18, 2011 at 10:26 AM
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Re:It's on of my clearest memories of my father, and till I wrote the
poem yesterday, I'd failed to realize that it whad to be a discovery for him too!
posted by
2902
on December 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM
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Wonderful poem! You capture the wonder and mystery of childhood so well. Its nice to read you again :-=) xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on December 18, 2011 at 8:15 AM
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I could sense the discovery in the silence! sam 
posted by
sam444
on December 18, 2011 at 8:04 AM
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Re:I'm sorry to hear that. Yes I was lucky.
posted by
2902
on December 18, 2011 at 2:36 AM
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You are a lucky man Bob, I never got to have conversations with my father...he talked and I listened.
posted by
UtahJay
on December 17, 2011 at 7:03 PM
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Re: your dad wasn't just big on the outside my friend...and neither are you.
When I started that poem, I just wanted to tell about my discovery that people have to die. But half way through it struck me that it must have been a revelation for him, too -an adult's unexpectedly discovering just how and what a little kid was thinking.
posted by
2902
on December 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM
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Re: I guess my giants TOOK me there.
posted by
2902
on December 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM
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your dad wasn't just big on the outside my friend...and neither are you.
posted by
Kabu
on December 17, 2011 at 11:07 AM
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ÿ Yesterday I saw a children’s book in the store. The cover showed a giant. He carried children out of Story Book Land sir. BC-A, Bill’s RJJst
posted by
BC-A
on December 17, 2011 at 3:46 AM
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