tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-782320347480395492024-03-06T19:14:47.798+11:00Here Is My HeartA journey where I will share my thoughts, the places in my heart & the many faces of me.diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.comBlogger608125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-14483575633051257242022-03-03T14:27:00.000+11:002023-04-04T13:38:55.645+10:00A <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-45918704021142945222020-02-12T12:55:00.001+11:002021-03-21T22:24:26.644+11:00Where are you mon ami?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s been such a long time since I have heard from you dear C.B. I have been thinking about you so much recently... I hope that you are well and that life is treating you kindly?</span><div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-17920389385479341342019-08-15T02:26:00.000+10:002019-08-15T02:26:16.015+10:00The most painful goodbyes...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The most painful goodbyes</span><br />
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Quote: Billal Nasir Khandiannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-48212704355101406202019-07-21T08:24:00.000+10:002019-07-21T08:24:36.251+10:00Words of Love Unspoken<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I closed my heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not to feel you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or the love that welled </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside just for you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And my eyes shut tight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not to see you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To quell the desire</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That I felt in your sight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turned my face</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I could not want you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your written words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had touched me so</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To hide the tears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of heartache</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The one's that so often fell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The many hours in silence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alone without you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadness my only friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally with resignation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I closed my lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not to whisper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The waiting words of love</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wished to tell ...</span><br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-9153690539084497602019-03-19T00:31:00.001+11:002019-03-19T00:31:47.782+11:00Stay close ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-9080710014626352912019-02-25T19:54:00.000+11:002019-02-25T19:54:10.632+11:00Flowers are always a good idea ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-42612473285038454192019-02-15T03:49:00.002+11:002019-02-15T03:49:44.902+11:00Thinking of the Past<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was feeling quite nostalgic this morning and thought of this music. It brought back many memories from the past...memories of how much you and your words mean to me. </span><br />
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Magnolia image from my gardendiannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-59622756085921665202019-01-30T10:32:00.001+11:002019-01-30T10:32:27.018+11:00Flowers for a Friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For my dear friend C.B.</span>diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-77777339798572740592018-11-18T14:37:00.000+11:002018-11-18T14:37:46.238+11:00For my dearest C.B.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am grieving the loss of you dear one, there is such an emptiness here now. I don't know where you are. If you have moved on and found true happiness then I am happy for you...but I would have hoped you would say goodbye. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have gone away from me before without explanation so you leave me wondering. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I worry that you are perhaps ill or worse still, that you may have died...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but then you would be happy to be with your God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have no way of knowing, no-one to tell me how you are, what has happened, no way to reach out to you except from here...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It all seems so silent, final and I am heartbroken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was looking through my weblog today, you have been so much a part of it. Your messages and your kindnesses resonate here. Your presence can be felt in the words and the spaces between.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our correspondence from the past still touches my heart. Ever since you made me aware of your presence all of those years ago, every poem, every word, every song and flower was for you. I have never known anyone like you before and never will again. What is there left for me now? I will always love you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much love, Dianne xoxo</span>diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-48700910912357418072018-10-07T21:46:00.000+11:002018-10-07T21:46:13.405+11:00On A Lane In Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And hedges leafing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with the green spring tide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the morning sun</span></div>
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For my dear friend C.B. wherever you may be.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have all of the feelings of Springtime,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yet I struggle to find the words...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ribbons of memories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of past Springs unravel, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taking me to places</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet the hedgerows have flowers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and berries will follow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The birds are still songful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and fragrant flowers surround</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">perhaps I will find the words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while these feelings still abound...</span><br />
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Prose - Dianne Dawes<br />
For dear C.B.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I miss you so much and I am concerned for your health and your well being! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you are not ill or worse? How would I know? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please contact me and let me know how you are? That you are well. I have no way of finding you over the vast distance which separates us. Please take care dear one. </span><br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So let the light guide your way</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hold every memory</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as you go</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and every road you take</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">will always lead you home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been a long day without you,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my friend</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I'll tell you all about it</span><br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-5420345593430296022018-05-26T02:35:00.001+10:002018-05-26T02:35:08.673+10:00From Sonnet LXXXINo one else, Love,<br />
will sleep in my dreams.<br />
You will go,<br />
we will go together,<br />
over the waters of time.<br />
No one else will travel<br />
through the shadows<br />
with me,<br />
only you, evergreen,<br />
ever sun, ever moon.<br />
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For dearest, C.B.<br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wish we had met many years ago</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sadly my youth has gone</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How wonderful it would have been</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To spend a day with you</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my hand in yours</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so close to you </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to go home with you</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to stay</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and never have to say Goodbye...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">For Dearest C.B.</span><br />
<br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-85828348564288030502018-02-23T01:14:00.001+11:002018-02-23T01:18:51.659+11:00It's True ...<div style="font-family: merriweather, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">It’s True<br />Ay, the pain it costs me<br />to love you as I love you!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">Who would buy it from me,<br />this ribbon I am holding,<br />and this sadness of cotton,<br />white, for making handkerchiefs with?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">Ay, the pain it costs me<br />to love you as I love you!</span></div>
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-6442090220534558862018-02-11T04:15:00.001+11:002018-02-11T04:15:43.406+11:00The feelings that hurt...<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -30px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.</span></span><br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-39000789083657446202018-01-14T00:30:00.001+11:002018-01-14T00:30:32.416+11:00I miss you ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I miss you dear one</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I miss your words </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I miss our friendship</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never meant to hurt you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am sorry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you as a friend </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life seems empty and pointless</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">without you in my world...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For you C.B. my dearest friend. xoxo</span>diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-85056536967150807202017-12-23T20:46:00.000+11:002017-12-23T20:46:04.051+11:00What was this world...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What was this world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before I knew you were inside it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I know, always, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before confirmation came,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">did I feel you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a phantom limb, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an ache across the darkness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I couldn't see beyond, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">did I wake in the nights, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sit up straight </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to the lack I knew you'd fill?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was this an intuition </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">born into me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">did I always know the spin </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the soil below me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when you were away, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the slow when you came near? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you make me forget, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or was it always us </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">orbiting around one another </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">waiting to begin again, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">each time waiting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to understand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tyler Knott Gregson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my dearest friend C.B.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you please still be my friend?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your friendship is precious to me.</span>diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-55393459585434694282017-12-20T14:22:00.000+11:002017-12-20T14:22:13.925+11:00I Wonder...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."</span><br />
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Lewis Carroll,<br />
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland &<br />
Through the Looking-Glass<br />
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For my dearest friend C.B .<br />
How wonderful to experience the beauty of snow in Winter! The grass and leaves laden with frost or white snow! The air cool and fresh...<br />
It is so hot here in the Southern Hemisphere, 37'C here today, south of Sydney, unbearably hot!<br />
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diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-46269031116110661082017-12-09T14:04:00.000+11:002017-12-09T14:04:07.566+11:00I will stand here, patient<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will stand here,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">patient, under new trees</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that flower over old bones,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and wait for you to come</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will walk there,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">slowly and listen to stories</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of last words spoken</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to first loves,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as my feet float over them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on my way to you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe here,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they will whisper to us, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">maybe here, they are laid out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like a xylophone for our feet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to gently play.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Years from this night,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when the rains have gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the chimes are still and quiet,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">under new blooms those old ghosts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will tell new stories, our story,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and our love will haunt them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are everything,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we have always been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tyler Knott Gregson.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For my dear friend C.B.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found this poem on Instagram </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and thought you might enjoy it. </span><br />
<br />diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78232034748039549.post-66682090576135701792017-11-13T00:26:00.004+11:002017-11-13T00:26:50.625+11:00The Meadow (New Moon)https://youtu.be/na8oGIWX5oc<br />
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From the film Twilight<br />
For dear C.B.diannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171808338793139579noreply@blogger.com4