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Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice...

Haven't blogged properly in a while now, but I'm really short of ideas. Looking around, for some old content among my school notes, I dug this one up. I don't remember why I wrote this, or even, when I wrote this, but after a week of many a tiffs and fights, this seemed appropriate. Is holding onto little grudges really worth the while? Instead of sounding all preachy, I'm going to let someone far more wise, and far beyond the scope of retribution, sum it up for me. “ All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. ”  -J.M.Barrie Anyway, as promised, here is something of a post. A poem that I'd written sometime in my youth. I really liked naming all my characters and titles after movies and songs, I notice. Brother's In Arms We met in school on a summer's day, Toddlers spending time away. Scribbling with my pencil new, He came up to me with smiles afew. "I really like your pencil" , he said, "Such bri
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The Gettysburg Address...

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here