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children feel concerning Love,
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unknown yet haunting
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What were we after?
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What were the impossible love
and kisses
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we were as proud of
as if they were our own?
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Gerard's tragic death
was a distant thing for us
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and we took the news coldly
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But one autumn day in October
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Bernadette passed us, not seeing us
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Later I recalled the event
more with pity than shame
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but I have a bitter memory of her...
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gone from our childhood skies...
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the way she'd disappear
around a corner...
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with her skirts flying