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This is Home

August 18, 2011
By laurieom SILVER, Cornelius, North Carolina
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Someday I'll walk out to my car,
with my breath rising like smoke
and my boots squeaking like
some foreign animal.
Then the engine won't start
and the doors will be frozen shut,
so I'll look up at this City and say
this really is home.

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