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Home / Happiness

Happiness

by Maura Stanton
Issue #74
Winter 1997-98
Today you’re going to hike to the very end Of this steep valley, where the path rises And disappears beyond the waterfall Marked on the yellow sign you saw last night Before you went to sleep to dream of today....

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