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Indeed...you know...he is still working on cars and gadgets..but his mind is not very sharp anymore, and the years he carries now so heavily upon his crippled back, he fixed my sons car but time has taken its measure of flesh and bone. Dad labors on in his mind and watches the squirrels and birds feed, and he occasionally wanders about the backyard. If there were any regrets worth the pain of remembering it might be that he is so far away.
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I have lived a blessed life, and the first of my blessings was the family I was born into. people who are willing to die for an ideal are unstoppable people willing to die for a country are unbeatable people who are willing to sacrifice anything to survive are unconquerable but people who have the courage to die for peace are the greatest of all-jwf
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