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    Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers
    Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers
    Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers
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    Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers

    By Marijo Readey

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    Shakespear tells us that love is not love if it changes with time and expeprience. If true, then none of us have ever loved. We experience grief as we learn that this ideal that cannot exist. Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers contains poems about love, relationships, and how, despite our best efforts, we constantly manage to get these basic concepts wrong. The text covers mistakes made when seeking love – And at what is often the most tragic of all, the mythologized love of family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateOct 25, 2011
    ISBN9780359004492
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      Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers - Marijo Readey

      Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers

      Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers

      Shadows Cast

      and

      Lonesome Prayers

      © M. Readey

      2010

      ISBN: 978-0-359-00449-2

      All Images and writings

      Copyright © 2010 by Marijo Readey

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      !!! Disclaimer !!!

      These poems are works of fiction.  The names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.   Of course, I use some real, institutions and history do fall within the context of the stories, but the stories themselves are works of fiction, and any industry, street, city, or event used in the background is just that- background for the story

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