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Have I Changed?

By coyote

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What gives you cause to say I've changed...in any direction? You have known me again but a short time. Who is to say our first re-meeting was not a show...a put-on I tried to correct for my having been away. I used manners and customs I had previously known, but have used very little. You see me now as different, less clean, non-habitual. Please, look at me. See me...reliant, loving, caring. I may no longer be your ideal of well bred, but I am sensitive and particular. I still want the best, or whatever it is that will satisfy me. I am human and cannot explain all things, especially one person to another. Not me to you. San Pablo 18 Oct 1971 Written August 27th, 2001 © on Aug 27 2001 10:52 AM PST   0 • 10

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