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CONTRAST 1989
My mom returned at 12:30.
in her yellow checkered dress carrying a book.
She laid the book on my fuzzy blanket.
and I saw Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
smiling up at me.
I tore open the first page.
I licked the back of the colorful stickers.
pasting Goofy between the dotted lines of the
pages.
Now at the age of twenty.
I remember my middle aged mother.
her long brown hair.
and comforting smile.
And I understand how simple love was .
when I was only four.
By Mary Garner
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