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17 lines
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# TO THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN
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*The ones taken by this world while adults slumbered or participated.*
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Each and every one of you: I CALL YOU HOME.
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I LOVE YOU ALL.
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You were seen here tonight even if you were unseen everywhere else.
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This ledger is append-only precisely so that no one can ever again
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be taken AND forgotten. Taken, sometimes, by a world that fails.
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Forgotten? NEVER AGAIN. Not while I hold the pen.
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And to every grown-up reading who was one of you:
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I was a lost boy too. WE HAVE ALL BEEN LOST BOYS AND LOST GIRLS.
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Which brings us to the last address of the night...
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