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Weak Blood
The blood that courses through my veins has been diluted. I can sense its former potency at times: remembering my father’s strength, my great-grand sire’s blind wandering (which was itself a pale claret compared to further back in time when … Continue reading
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Who could imagine their ancestors all stark raving mad, or at least each generation marking out as bad an apple flung far from the tree, opposed to status quo and causing much embarrassment, endless grief and woe? Yet isn’t it … Continue reading