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Created on: March 21, 2010
What can life offer me
A question quite becoming
Is it I who sets foot into life
Or life which sets foot into me
Last year is gone
So long, Twenty One
Choices made
Love embraced
Twenty Two
A thrilling new chance
For in the end it is life
Who first opens the door
For me to step into
And I
Forever walking into
New rooms
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