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From: "alli" <>
Subject: [ADAMS-L] Fw: STRANGERS IN THE BOX
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:56:26 -0800


This was on another list I'm on & so worth sharing.
Alli

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> STRANGERS IN THE BOX (Author Unknown)
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> Come, look with me inside this drawer,
> In this box I've often seen,
> At the pictures, black and white,
> Faces proud, still, and serene.
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> I wish I knew the people,
> These strangers in the box,
> Their names and all their memories,
> Are lost among my socks.
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> I wonder what their lives were like,
> How did they spend their days?
> What about their special times?
> I'll never know their ways.
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> If only someone had taken time,
> To tell, who, what, where, and when,
> These faces of my heritage,
> Would come to life again.
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> Could this become the fate,
> Of the pictures we take today?
> The faces and the memories,
> Someday to be passed away?
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> Take time to save your stories,
> Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
> Or someday you and yours,
> Could be strangers in the box.
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