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To Be Weak Is a Crime

Once, there stood in the open sky My teacher, my brother, my friend and I. My friend saw an eagle suddenly dive Onto a little dove and swallowing it half-alive. My friend sadly said, Oh, what a bad time”! “What was this little lovely dove’s crime”? My teacher said, “Its crime was that it was weak And had not the same claws and similar a beak!!!

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Date: 8/28/2010 2:40:00 PM
Well now I have to agree with you,, I just told my boyfriend how weak he is..lol..enjoyed your thoughts on it though,..LeeAnn
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