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Last Stop Cafe'

With only one more night together we ordered cappuccino sat by the window and stared out at the crowded station. I pictured you in some God forsaken place dodging bullets and grenades cursing the enemy and longing to be wrapped in me. You pictured me waiting, worrying, dreaming of the day you'd return, and then you smiled a smile of dread, as if you knew this would be our last rendezvous...

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Date: 1/16/2019 3:26:00 PM
We never like to think that, but it is a terrific poem reminding me of many times that I did not know it would be the last time and it was.
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Susan Jeavons
Date: 1/16/2019 3:38:00 PM
I wrote this after my husband died from Agent Orange cancer. Not about him, but about all the women whose husbands never came home or died later.

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