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A Senior Nursery Rhyme: And We All Fall Down

By Al Martinez, May 15, 2013 04:00 AM

I did not gather you here today to form a circle and lead you in a child's game of Ring Around the Rosy, at the end of which we all fall down. It was fun when we were kids and could bounce up off the play yard like balloons, laughing and clapping in delight. Well, it ain't so much fun anymore.

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