Slow Dance
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Complete Fri, Jun 29, 2012<5 mins
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
*** This was written by a terminally ill girl with cancer who has about six months- probably less, now- to live. Please share this with everyone you know. I can take absolutely no credit for this poem. I do not own it. I am simply the receiver, the lucky girl, who got to read this poem. Thank you.
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