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Created on: February 02, 2009
"Blood is Thicker Than Water" (somebody who got it wrong)
How is it that the streams of life that course through our veins; could hold anything other than a direct comparison to the fresh pureness of mother nature that ensures our existence?
Such a perplexed simile; raped and distorted by the contortions of lineage! It isn't till blood is seized from the heart, cleaved from the flesh, pouring out aimlessly, wasted; that its density produces any depth.
Only a fool would believe otherwise.
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