I've lived in 1987 for the past two months,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkkUFxcnJG
Every waking moment and in my every dream,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSt9MbtsM1g
When sleep would finally come called by exhaustion,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVU5R8yxMeN
As is still the case although the work is now done.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SMBcvxMf9
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Idealistic young lawyer,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUW4OFNX9Km
In his first posting as a dean,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYccate7dk
In a for-profit business school,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDNGBfRNH4k
Naive voice crying in the wilderness.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZM3xdCrHE
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Worked very long hours,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPr94wE2yc
To change what was wrong,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNsLmkCn7sj
Achieved great success,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfMoMi5kGF
Which all came to naught.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUFjyFIEXz
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Made friends while tilting at windmills,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09Currmh7w
Stubbornly refusing to accept,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtwSp8VNFCZ
That which could be changed through simple hard work,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FES0euGlH
That I believed would make real difference in others' lives.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1gOEWw1t2
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A classic clash of missions and visions,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOgvJJ93E4A
Provides the factual drama--theirs, to maximize profits,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84feLMrcK9
And deliver an education at the lowest possible cost,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFUa7jT0sA
Mine to be in the business of changing lives for the better.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02LlMKmWAu
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I implemented meaningful changes,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZvTnzKoD9s
That brought unintended consequences,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprXwIUsKBw
I found unacceptable, and personal conflicts,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrpbaNBYoh
That caused me to resign while still on excellent terms.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnGTfKDvYN
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And I learned critical lessons,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz3Seu3Au6
Not just about an industry I did not know,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmFJcNydNi
But about myself, my strengths and my weaknesses,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzgm8HDFbwy
And about love that brought joy and pain that I can still feel.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTm7z0sROA
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I wrote through the night, composed at the keyboard,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaogYj6sAt3
Sleeping only a few hours when my vision blurred,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjNaCAaFI9p
And I could not focus any more around 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKb687zNVA
Then back to my keyboard and my previous life.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xtILO1tjd
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Ghosts long thought buried rose, warm flesh and blood,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu77cu5xpMQ
Old battles fought anew, old brown paths grew verdant,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLRfQhUfby
Cold cinders rekindled, closed doors opened wide,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzwy7GPdch
Beckoned me to live for a time in what might have been.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8EptEIfJf
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Scars long ago faded opened up anew,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUknjIq50f
The heart cried tears of blood, and fiction,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVcdri8rSh
Much too close to truth flowed onto the page,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJNdFTArQ2
Chasing sleep away long after the writing was done.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoJxHR98lm
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After two decades of gestation,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJGlfVoU0L
I've now given birth to my first child,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxeFXIVeY5
The afterbirth has been cleaned,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkb6dKcnmGw
She is all pink, warm, and oh so cuddly.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv04fcQMuUD
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I fell in love with her the moment167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG3Y3jCfnhU
I stared into her huge, bright, old-soul eyes167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmi9Tlc5FJ9
Her strong, tiny hand is now wrapped167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSgasGm9hR
Around all of my heart strings and will be for life.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLfe93h4FP
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Now I'm searching for a literary agent167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHpzaKIlzif
Sending tiny snapshots of my little girl167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRxwkfMhyJK
Hoping they will love her167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNSEVrIDWpd
But knowing they may not.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ338DMhWRNg
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If I can't send her off to finishing school,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09vQ31re0y
I will home school her, teach her all I know,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVXSMLURlI
And ready her as best I can to face the world,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVzRWLpmK7
Where she may not thrive but will always have my love.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlqH2Zw8Ala
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If all goes well, I will give her a sister to play with,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeSpEZTE1u
In a year or so if life will allow it,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7EJ7qbJ3D
My heart is large and still has room,167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9b9g1VD0G
For more wounds to open that only they can heal.167Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡayb6pwYvmc
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