Chasing Pavements
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Last published Fri, Dec 28, 2012
How’d it come to this? What happened?
Here we all are, Standing next to the alter as she comes down the aisle.
What happened next made everyone in the whole place gasp!
But wait, you don’t know the story, let me tell you, it started with a shirt from Wal-Mart.
And what it leads up to makes it feel like we’re just ‘chasing pavements’
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