Inspiration: Current trends and old patterns mix when times get hard. I am a witness to how the patterns of long ago stifle, challenge, advance, destroy, sidetrack, and otherwise affect the choices people around me make. Having searched my past for patterns and talked with others who have too, I wanted to simply capture the dynamic that we often live.
So I wrote: Long Ago
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