Rogers Hall School - Splinters Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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Obtrusive Journey to love a demand to love is simple but to live with love is bitter sweet as is payment for anything priceless to have a lover has property of an uncut diamond the breath of a smoky spring to love is a perception far beyond liking with mastery to strive with painful patience for only occasional satisfaction to love is to make the other a little better. Foil names are fabricated . . . for what eventually acquires its own inevitable uniqueness of power and respect has no equal substitute LISA STRASBURG '69 4

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