| She sits down on the sofa
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| Opens up an old photo album filled with pictures and post cards.
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| Sent from Fred in world war two
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| The tears rush down her head with no where to run to.
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| Her grandson tugs her arm and asks her
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| «Grandma what’s wrong what happened to grandpa?»
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| The thump in her throat still wont move
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| And the river between her eyes starts to flow faster.
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| Fifteen when they met in a small town
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| On the outskirts of a city that was worn down.
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| She recalls climbing up that hill
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| To catch a glimpse of the world from an outside perspective.
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| Fred always said that he would love to teach her how to fly
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| But he was scared to death of what her dad would do if she died
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| So he held her and never let go
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| And they fell deep in love with each other.
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| Life is but a miracle
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| All you know is fading slow
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| You never know just what you have
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| Until it’s gone over the rainbow.
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| He’ll get better, yes he will.
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| He’ll get better if he’s loved.
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| She remembers the first time
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| He forgot who she was.
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| Ten hours a day at the nursing home
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| Fred laid in bed stayed
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| Fed through tubes while she would read him poems
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| He always told her courage is to face your fears
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| Even though he hadn’t recognized her aging face for years
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| She didn’t give in though
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| She knew that even though he had a hole in his brain
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| It wasn’t safe for him to stay alone
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| And every day she noticed all the roses in the vase withering away
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| And hoped and prayed that they would maybe grow.
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| Life is but a miracle
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| All you know is fading slow
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| You never know just what you have
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| Until it’s gone over the rainbow.
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| He’ll get better, yes he will.
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| He’ll get better if he’s loved.
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| She remembers the first time
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| He forgot who she was.
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| And as her grandson looked up at her
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| she couldn’t help to ignore her daughter and son in law
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| In the other room arguing about
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| Something that didn’t matter
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| She told him both not to move and picked up her husbands glasses
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| «Try them on.»
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| She said.
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| She said
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| «Why?»
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| «Because Id like to share with you how your father liked to look at life.»
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| Her daughter stubborn and sad held the glasses in her hand
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| So she sat them all down on the couch and this is what she said:
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| «Your father probably would have liked for me to tell you that the night that
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| you were born
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| Was the night that he put down the bottle
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| If you ever get in a fight with someone you love
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| Know that if they died before apology you wouldn’t live to see tomorrow
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| Never know whats gonna come
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| So when it goes it goes it’s hard to cope
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| Never run from what you know controls emotional reactions
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| When you take your anger out on someone else
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| It’s only an escape from looking inside of yourself and taking them for granted.
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| Life is but a miracle
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| All you know is fading slow
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| You never know just what you have
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| Until it’s gone over the rainbow.
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| He’ll get better, yes he will.
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| He’ll get better if he’s loved.
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| She remembers the first time
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| He forgot who she was. |