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This was my first ever speech. My mother pulled her copy out of the cedar
chest and then spent hours teaching me how to present it, and helping me
memorize it. I have been out of school 20 years and this is the first time
I have seen that poem for 23 years. What a moving poem. It takes you from
every emotion, thrillingly joyful, to deepest loss pain and despair, before
taking you to the stability of a more mature adulthood, a person who still
has a handle on life, yet doesn't crash and soar quite as much anymore.
Mary Mintle from United States