Jem

If I Had Known, I’d Have Come Here Better Equipped

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We live on

love, whether it’s there or

not and rejoice in it even in

its absence. If I had known,

I’d have come here better equipped—

but that’s another one of those

things you can’t change—as we

can’t alter that part of us

that lives on memory, knowing

all the while that time is not real…

— Albert Huffstickler from poem Don’t Ask the Angels How They Fly

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