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When I touched your hands,

I touched hands that had felt

the chill of 94 winters,

fingers that had stretched in the sunlight

of as many springs.

When I touched your feet,

I touched feet that had walked

the paths of nine decades,

toes curling and uncurling through

the uncertainty of five wars.

When I touched your arms,

I touched the arms that had

braced you from and embraced the world,

a world I know only through

historians and faded photographs.

When I stared into the shell of your eyes,

I saw the screen upon which

a million irreplaceable scenes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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