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Deirdre LockwoodJune 26, 2025

It’s an old family story, how at five
I asked, and they turned
the question back on me. Well,
where do you think you came from?

I replied, they say, as cool as milk,
From earth and from God.
I find it hard to believe now. But then, I was
still close enough to both
to know, I guess.

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