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BEYOND ME The latter part of twenty twenty was promising with the Corona vaccine, that I was looking forward with twenty twenty one, anticipating slowing down of the pandemic will be happening. Can I ever imagine that fifteen members of my family in the last two weeks of December became positive with the Corona virus? Can I ever think that Christmas Eve would be spent worrying what would happen to my brother, who was taken to the hospital? Can I ever conceive that five more members of my family in the first eleven days of January became positive with this virus also? Can I visualize three out of the five would be in the hospital and one, my niece would not make it and we could never see her again alive? Can I ever envisage my niece passing away on the sixteenth of January and my brother, who was in the hospital for twenty five days, dying the next day, seventeenth of January, never to talk to him again nor see him again? Can I ever imagine, think, conceive, visualize, envisage these circumstances happening within a month, from eighteenth of December through seventeenth of January, no, no, no, never! I never imagined, thought, conceived, visualized, nor envisaged my mother, my four brothers, two sisters, three sisters-in-law, four nieces, two nephews, a grandniece and three others in the family in six different households contracting the virus in twenty five days. Never did I imagine, losing my brother and my niece and not having a chance to see, touch, hug them and say goodbye. I cannot understand, I cannot comprehend everything that happened. I am numbed. Everything was beyond by understanding. Everything was beyond my comprehension. I’m still in a dazed, everything beyond me. 1/23/21 Can You Imagine - Any Form Poetry Constance La France Grammar Checked (PS - Grammar Checker)

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Date: 1/29/2021 1:38:00 PM
Marilene, congratulations on your win in my Can You Imagine contest with this wonderful poem, I like it a lot _Constance
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Marilene Evans
Date: 1/30/2021 12:37:00 PM
Thanks so much, Constance. Thanks also for my placement. I'm still in a dazed and could not grasp what happened.
Date: 1/24/2021 10:54:00 AM
Can you even imagine a President who claims a pandemic is an "hoax"? Aloha! Rico
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Marilene Evans
Date: 1/24/2021 7:22:00 PM
Yes, not just imagined; but heard all his lies.... a self-centered, selfish, no empathy, no character person....

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