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There- floodlit in the dark- is the enormous Cedar which gives the ward its name. How could a body not take heart from the sight of the limb it lost
last winter and survived, the pale flesh under the bark, the wound still fresh?
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There has been so much talk of odds and chances, we could be leaving a casino, with our purses lightened, moving toward the car in Set Down Only.
The shadow of the crane boom passes over. A weight leaves the earth, heavenward. No-one catches anyone ' s eye. No-one is getting away with his life.
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