<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This poem in which I am revisiting my ancestry is not a recent one. <div class="">I read it to the group, (with some staggering) because it had to do with facing my guilt and finding its redemption. </div><div class="">Here I added the first part of the poem which I didn’t read because it made it too long, but the second part can only make sense in the light of it.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal" class="">Sorcerers’ Houses – Italy<span class=""></span></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;text-indent:0.5in;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal" class="">One<span class=""></span></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">In our ancestral village, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the houses of sorcerers have no mirrors:<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">looking into the reflecting glass perpetrates the human lie,
<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">arrests the dreamtime that flows
from the womb<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and opens windows
to other possibilities of being.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I was told that male sorcerers are no longer men.<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">They give up their balls in trade for that womb<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">which is their passage out of pointed beliefs. <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Shoved out of the known universe, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">they land into open-breasted knowledge.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">"Information is stored in bone and stone," <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the sorcerers in our mountain villages caution us.<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The dream sorceress, <i class="">la strega</i>,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">inform me that the cousin I love <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">had a twin sister who died the day they were born.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">It released him from the ancestral spell of ossification.<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Now as I labor to purify the lie out of my cells, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">ever so slowly,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">he invites our twin sister<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to come from the future and correct our past.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p>
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal" class="">My Mother Specter – France<span class=""></span></span></h1>
<h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in;text-indent:0.5in;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:normal" class="">Two<u class=""><span class=""></span></u></span></h1><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><u class=""><span class=""><span style="text-decoration:none" class=""> </span></span></u></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Today I am alone roaming the fall countryside<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">spiked with sunflower stalks left over from recent harvest.<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">As I walk across turned up fields, across fallow lands<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and reach the drenched vineyards holding on to their grapes,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I remember the dream of rivers flowing <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">from my mother's body to mine.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I pick fossils from deep furrows, I listen to the song of the
rock,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and my mother's specter is here by my side, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">leaving on the darkening sky a place paler than the rest.<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">"Autumn has turned up what was
buried deep," <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">she says in her
voiceless way.<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Pointing towards the wind she accuses
<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the gentle ferocity herding threatening
clouds <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and plotting the dreary season.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">"See how it was for me all
those winters<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">alone, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">under frost's
spell,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">without sun, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">without you my
daughter, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">only blizzards, storms and death's
prospect pounding on my door.<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I have been so lonely ever since
you deserted me.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“An only daughter <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">who left me by myself <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to die a lonely death <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">in unfriendly regions, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">far from my homeland.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Disregarding my cautions, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">she joined sorcerers <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">in their houses of games<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and rode a lonely wind <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to gather up lost twins.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">"Here, in this garden of
France <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">after crops are gathered and
hunting is over, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">all doors are shut tight; <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">there is no longer room for human
compassion. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the lonely can die alone, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">they are shaped by their fears, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">their pain the result of too much
indulgence.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>"There
you go again, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>on
the traces of faded flowers and lost men's poetry. <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>Stay
away from them, their dis-ease is catching.<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>No
my daughter, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>I
won't have you roam the misty countryside<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>looking
for ecstasy. <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>Love
is the flower of the beaten path<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span class=""> </span>and
anyone who cares to bend can find it. <span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“Don’t try to make your way on this
trail of fugitive impressions;<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">it vanishes as you go. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The mirror you used to call your twin
is now broken, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I cut myself on its edges. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">My faint heart failed to soar and my
destiny fell short of wisdom.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“Please stop the dreaming, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">forget that flickering light, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that whirl of wild energy pushing
you <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">beyond the autumn fields <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">into spheres where dark entities
prey on you.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">“I saw them staring at you in your
darkened room, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I saw them dense and muscular, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">curling around your chest on
moonless nights. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Do you remember, soon after I died,
<span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">when the psychic octopus prevented
your journeying spirit <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">from reentering the shelter of your
deserted body?<span class=""> </span><span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Do you remember how the life force
leaked <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">from your chest into the mouth of
the beast?<span class=""> </span><span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I was the one who ripped the demon
off you.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">"Go home now, my daughter, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">build yourself a fire. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">This winter doesn't promise another
spring, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">you will have to make your own. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Forget your boy cousin, forget your
father's tribe, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the high cheek bones, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the Italian houses made of stone. <span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Sunflowers are withered. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Don't you know? <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">That's what killed Van Gogh.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">‘Come, sit with me by the
fire.<span class=""> </span><span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Give up poets, sorcerers, and those
failed magicians, <span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the
philosophers.<span class=""> </span><span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Turn on the light and sing to me, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">begin the weaving, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the embroidery, <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the knitting.<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Work with me on the cloth of the
ordinary. <span class=""></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">forgive my loneliness,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">forgive your quest,<span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">forgive the eyes your ancestors
gave you, <span class=""></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">please forgive me<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">as you forgive yourself,<span class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">forgive<span class=""></span></div> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" class="">forgive. . .”</span>
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