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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:44 PM Dec 2012

When spring arrives, from every tree tip flowers will bloom

But those children who fell with last autumn's leaves will never return

- Ryokan, translated by John Stevens
in Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan
Shambala
Boston: 1996

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When spring arrives, from every tree tip flowers will bloom (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2012 OP

omg, s4p. I can't even allow myself to imagine what these parents must be experiencing. cbayer Dec 2012 #1

cbayer

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1. omg, s4p. I can't even allow myself to imagine what these parents must be experiencing.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 05:49 PM

Dec 2012

I went through a photo montage this morning and my heart just broke.

Just broke.

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