- There was a Boy -
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There was a boy
A very strange, enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he
And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"
- Nat King Cole, "Nature Boy"
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Kind Things
Historical FictionAnn Marie Dawson discovered herself along a road less taken. So less taken, in fact, until the Autumn of 1939 she believed she was entirely alone in a world she constructed for herself, where time and people mattered only as much or as little as she...