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THE ORPHAN by THOMAS MCGRATH

First Line: IT HAS BEEN ALONG TIME
Last Line: -- no one with whom he could cry
Subject(s): FATHERS & SONS;
It has been a long time
Since he was a little boy.
And in all those years
-- no one with whom he could cry.


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