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In Her Fortieth Year.(Poem)

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| June 01, 2008 | Edgar, Suzanne | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
IN HER FORTIETH YEAR 
 
   The night my sister received the news 
   that she would die before long 
   she sat straight up in the hospital bed 
   and hardly paused for breath 
 
   but spoke like a woman who'd put up a fight: 
   Death's never frightened me. Then again, 
   if dying becomes a drawn-out thing ... 
   She left the rest unsaid. 
 
   From jutting her chin at the window's ...

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