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Team Orange V Team Green 12 July Drummer March

Chatting with my mum last night as we often do I listened intently to her telling me about one of her favorite day's out and memories when she herself was a child And she inadvertently revealed what she thought was a girl's day out no men we're allowed What she did not realise was in fact she was actually saying and reason no men or husband's we're allowed Was because she was on an Orange Lodge march celebrating and singing Billy is a hero Inspite innocently knowing the fact her own Father was a Catholic Choir Boy And what she was singing or marching for or in aid of Was mot erely a child waxing lyricallyabout being given a day off school But the very reason she never got to have her dream church white wedding but had to get married in a registry office instead And why my dad's dad her father-in-law never went to his own son's wedding Because to the truly faithful Love is not reason enough to or shall cross the orange and green division dividing bell

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Date: 8/11/2021 12:38:00 PM
I totally get this one Christopher, family’s where and still are torn apart, by digression from the status quo, people on both sides have been murdered for falling in love and dating the perceived enemy, honestly it’s quite enough now, but still seethes under the surface, your poem is a fine example of bigotry being bred insidiously into children cheers David
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/11/2021 12:41:00 PM
Cheers David so much obliged and appreciative as always. Thank you

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