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A <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nice poem. Thanks for sharing.</span>
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<div style="font:10pt Helvetica Neue;">Shawn Jacobson<br>
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From: Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org><br>
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Subject: [Stylist] poem for reading and comment<br>
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<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">When I thought we were kin</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">By Ann Chiappetta</div>
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<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Folks called me Snow Baby</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">A Native likeness</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Bold face, plentiful hair, </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Almond-shaped eyes </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">The whispers of a grandmother’s affair </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal"> </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">When I thought we were kin</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">I sang, delighted by the sun’s doctrine </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">And then was Betrayed by a false treaty named Divorce</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">And Entered a Brave New World</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Where second hand and thrift.</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Bronzed me fearless.</div>
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<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Later, when being kin seemed impossible</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">And probable, depending on who was asked</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">I believed it Despite the </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">eventual proof offered with a cheek swab or mail-order saliva.</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal"> </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">I live, love, thrive, fight, endure </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">grieve, Grind my spirit into the earth and Heavens, </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">and listen to the messages in the wind </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">and hear from the song in my heart’s blood, of what is to come</div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Because I still believe in kin.</div>
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<div align="center" style="text-align:center;" class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Ann M. Chiappetta, M.S.</div>
<div align="center" style="text-align:center;" class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">Making Meaningful ConnectionsThrough Media </div>
<div class="yiv3945963278MsoNormal">914.393.6605 USA</div>
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