our loved friend carol manley two days before her sudden death emailed me about the poems in illinois times she wrote do you need material maybe you can do something with this from zay: “the girls were chasing the boys they wanted to put makeup on us but our feet sang a song the boys’ feet sang a fast song the girls’ feet sang a slow song so they didn’t catch us!” carol carol we ache at our loss and little xavier’s loss he growing up now without a grandma to keep his feet singing we without you to save his songs without you to save the treasure of your own songs not yet written

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