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Coming here* v7 | |5 o! R9 X# `' @3 S3 J; ~
Settling down
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Homesick
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with a view of returning to home ground
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! \* n7 n) K+ a w e9 EDays inched into years8 i; O: t( L" |2 _# W/ _- V+ e
I watched others
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5 A3 b; ]& m, F# K' ngo and come back
: _* B8 E; Y# l& mWe never did0 g/ u: q* H# a, }- n
nor can we now) E7 v8 t4 ^( J- c# } J7 b
resettle in the old country
3 [' i2 E% }# G# d. nleave our children ) N! y- t3 t$ z8 p2 {
and their children - t. I( J8 p' R/ U/ `, h0 |+ U. y
settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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