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Old 07-23-2013, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by DaleMN View Post
I got that Kipling poem in a graduation card from a girl, my first true love actually, that I broke up with in an ungentlemenly-like manner. It still makes me feel like a cad when I see that poem.
Aw....sorry. She might have been "the one" for you.....but you will never know. Just teasing.

As another person said, it was inspirational.....to me anyway.
More so than a "rap" kind of poem. I guess we were educated at the very end of the "old fashioned" kind of schooling.........