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The landscape of love can be found in a child's coloring book, for love demands simplicity. The coloring-in of that land is your work. Firstly, it is essential that you gaze upon the frontispiece just beneath the cover. This page will be blood red if it’s any other color then you are in a fairytale. Study the page if you don’t see yourself drowning in that deep red, then you are not willing to make the sacrifice, turn no more pages. This is not a land that is any place on a map, it has a certain amount of roughly sketched-out pages; to see beyond them a part of you must be remade, perhaps some piece of you must die. If the red page has changed to a more amiable hue by page seven then you can move on confidently coloring within the lines, and the story being told will probably work out just fine.

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Date: 4/14/2022 4:35:00 PM
Intriguing poem, Eric. Write On! Bill
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Eric Ashford
Date: 5/3/2022 7:57:00 AM
Will do Bill, and Thanks!

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