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By OLHOCKEY33 BRONZE
Clive, Iowa
Elderly and frightened and half alive He had lain shivering so fragile with sunken eyes A third of his weight had been starved away Slowly dying on his last Christmas Day The w...
Clive, Iowa
Elderly and frightened and half alive He had lain shivering so fragile with sunken eyes A third of his weight had been starved away Slowly dying on his last Christmas Day The w...