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' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Cuddle(For Scarlet)

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CUDDLE

“Awww...come here! ”
she said to the ghost

giving it a cuddle.

It hadn’t been cuddled
for a long long time.

It began
crying.


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I brought my little step-daughter to see her Daddy.

It was the first time she had ever been in a graveyard.

She looked at an angel crying marble tears amongst
the rain but didn’t cry herself.

She looked at a point in mid-air as if he were there
and comforted him wherever he was.

“Daddy’s not dead...he’s alive in my head! ”

I began crying.

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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