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Thank you, my cherished friend Daniel. What an amazing blessing to have a hard truth in life manifest itself through poetic collaboration with supportive friends. It has been, yet again, an honor to work with you but this time, it could be a life changing experience!

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The Show Must Go On: Collaboration With Daniel Turner

She's playing the lead
On the stage of her life
The role of a wife and mother
A rehearsed performance
Over the years
With lost feelings in the scenes with her lover

When the play first opened
Still learning her part
The acting, exciting and loud
She saw bright flashing lights
A marquee rising star
Performing for a make believe crowd

All of those years
With the same lines and scenes
She's lost that fire and zest
But night after night
In the final act
That's when her acting is best

It's all in the way
She says her goodnights
Wishing the word was goodbye
Honestly meaning 
Each one from the last
Bringing a tear to her eye

Carefully crafting
The use of her words
To tenor the message she's sending
The voids became bigger
And harder to fill
Her desperate attempts of an ending

Used as a lover
She thinks of another
Feeding her hunger for hope
Still longing to feel
All of life's zest and zeal
Through fantasy she learned to cope.

With each passing day 
She's gathering courage
To build a brave new life upon
But age has a way
To wick courage away
As they say...
"The show must go on!"

                   -A Daniel Turner & Jeannie Minor 
                      Collaboration

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