<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459532" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The beloved stranger</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was about seven years<br>after her breakdown<br>which she could not remember, and<br>which I could not forget<br>that one day<br>as I was creaming and powdering her<br>more intimately than I ever expected to as a man to his mother, <br>she turned to me and said -<br>inching her way<br>with supreme heroic human effort<br>out of the black and midnight subsoil maze<br>of dementia - said<br>carefully, enquiringly<br>as if to establish a relevant fact, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Are we related? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I knew not how to answer...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then after some few days<br>I found a way to ease that pain: <br>as I creamed and powdered<br>the soreness under her still fine womanly breasts<br>at a hundred and two years of age<br>I said quietly<br>to her uncomprehending memory, <br>'beloved stranger...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it wasn't a joke that she could share, but<br>it helped a little.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459532" data-title="The beloved stranger de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It was about seven years after her breakdown which she could not remember, and which I could not forget that one day as I was creaming and powdering her more intimately than I ever expected to as a man to his mother, she turned to me and said - i..."></div> </div> </div>

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