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YOU TAUGHT ME by THOMAS MCGRATH

First Line: ALL THOSE YEARS, ALONE
Last Line: I didn't even know my name!
Subject(s): CHILDREN; FATHERS; FATHERS & SONS; LOVE; PARENTS; SONS; CHILDHOOD; PARENTHOOD;

All those years, alone,
Married to the intense uninteresting life . . .
And, until you came, Tomasito,
I didn't even know my name!


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98368-0271, www.cc.press.org



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