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Created on: April 04, 2009
Come now and take her,
For I will not last,
My days are now numbered,
The cancer's spread fast.
I write to her letters,
About all that I care,
My morals, my ethics, my dreams I do share.
I give all that I have and all that I'll be,
My daughter, my life, my true destiny.
Come now at last,
I'm fading fast,
I whisper to you what I cannot bear,
"Love her for me and handle with care".
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