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Copyright © Carmel Harrington 2015
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For my family – the H’s,Roger, Amelia, Nate & Eva.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
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