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  "text": "I was driving down the mountain, the curves\n\nwere bad, I wasn't going slow, the day\n\nwas one of those that takes your breath away...\n\nOn hilltops, I made believe I'd take off\n\ninto the absolute, but as I swerved\n\nagain and again...\n\nand as the sun's\n\nautumnal, soporific light shone on...\n\nsomething gave in me and I let go—\n\nthis driving need to make it all mean more.\n\nIn time, I turned the wheel back to the road.",
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      "text": "Are we all with acute loneliness,\n\nchronic patients trying to recover\n\nthe will to love?\n\n...Sometimes the love\n\nof another wounded one acts like a salve\n\nwhich soothes the dying self but cannot heal\n\nour lives. And perhaps this is what it feels\n\nlike to be human, and we are all well?",
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      "text": "It's UPS\n\nwith two parcels! ...\n\na handsome lad, guesses it's my birthday\n\nand asks how old I am. He acts surprised\n\nhe's a decade younger. We linger at the door\n\none of us is not immortal anymore.",
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      "text": "I say, Don't trust those men with better,\n\nbigger versions of love if they refuse\n\nthe small, shabby sample they gave others\n\nthe tribute of believing it was true.",
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