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The Way It Was

The way it was I lived on a farm, and one day I walked down the lane to get the horse in as it looked like rain a man in a dark suit walked towards me I said good evening, but he didn`t see me. Later that evening an ancient lady who lived at the farm it was customary for small farmers to take in old people and get paid by the state, was feeling ill. A doctor was called for, but we had no phone, so I was sent to a farm that had one. By the time the doctor showed up the lady had died. The farmers put her in a wooden box that was used to keep the milk urns it had a lid, this to keep rats away they smell death. Next day an open-plan car came they had a coffin put the lady in a plain coffin and off the drove to town and that was the last I saw of her. The farmer got another old person to take her room.

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Date: 12/1/2018 6:37:00 PM
They had a system in place...I got a glimpse of it through your poem...Well done...All the best Jan
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Jan Hansen
Date: 12/2/2018 4:20:00 AM
thank you, Arturo Michael

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