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Allergic Reaction

When first invited to The Land of Milk and Honey where stars at night shone bright and days there were always sunny he demurred to go Abraham was of a mind to politely decline as wouldn't you know he was lactose intolerant and diabetic too so the alleged Promised Land would only guarantee even more misery but when he repented and relented as his story unravels more than 2,200 miles by ox-cart he then travels and tho' it's unsure if he found a cure or the fire of his desire to fulfill the dream which kept him alive lo he lived to be an old soul of one hundred and seventy five

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