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A Sad Life

she spent seventy-six years of life not living her dream wanting to though i never wanted to teach she told me how long did you teach? I asked. thirty-seven years What did you want to do? I wanted to be an artist. Did you create art during vacations? No. I was too tired. Did you do art on weekends? No. I was depressed. Now that you are retired, are you doing art? No. I am blind in one eye. I cannot do art now.

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