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no_hypocrisy

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4. You're welcome.

Reply to inanna (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 08:02 AM

Dec 2016

Last edited Mon Dec 26, 2016, 09:02 AM - Edit history (2)

It IS haunting. I'm surprised it isn't better known. It reminds me so of Dickens.

BTW: The Gathering at 58:40. And the poem in the movie is nothing like the actual one I posted.

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Christmas Day in the Work House by George R. Sims [View all] no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 OP

This is excellent. inanna Dec 2016 #1

This poem has haunted me since the Seventies. no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #2

Thanks for the link to the movie. inanna Dec 2016 #3

You're welcome. no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #4

K&R n/t w0nderer Dec 2016 #5

Recited no_hypocrisy Dec 2016 #6