Today I took a walk; it led me to a wood. ………………………..
Winter is upon us with frost and it was cold as I stood.
Beneath my feet were oak leaves crisply sparkling
Above my head the rays of light reflecting, glistening.
I took a breath of clean fresh air that billowed out as smoke
Flung out my arms and turned around, as the woodland spoke.
My heart beat slowly like a drum, to a rhythmic beat.
I listened to it’s sound, while the energy pulsed through my feet.
My head did spin, I wanted to laugh, instead I hugged a tree,
I’m alive, and was part of that wood, and it was part of me.
Tears of joy sprang to my eyes that glistened like the frost.
For at last my heart sang, my soul I’d thought I’d lost.
You’re part of me, the trees the flowers and the sun,
The Universe and God, are waiting, we are One.
We are all connected, in a moment I just knew,
The key is Love, Everything, Everyone, Especially You.
Each of us is special, unique unto his own,
In that moment my heart felt light, as if I’d just flown.
I am the Lord of the Dance said he- echoed in my head,
At last I knew- I’d met the source- We are One it said.
Peace and Laughter filled my heart, I laughed or I should cry,
I wanted to embrace the whole wide World, and to tell it why.
Love is the answer, Love is the Key,
So simple, yet so hard.
Love is the answer Love is the key,
Grasp it- hold it, Love is now for you and me..
…. Love is the Answer!
© Sue Dreamwalker – 2013 All rights reserved.
I wrote this poem I back in 2008, but the Wood photos were taken only a couple of weeks ago as we walked a favourite walk.
We can all help the flow of our World’s Life Force.. and that is to start sending LOVE out into it.. Instead of making judgements, we need more tolerance, and compassion, care, and understanding.
For what we give out comes back…
So send out what you wish to come back around
And Help the World Heal
With your Love!
Thank you for reading
~Sue~
lindalitebeing
Nov 23, 2013 @ 18:04:13
more alchemy, combining old poetry with newer photos to create a brand new expression, wonderful Sue!
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:27:02
Yes, I did this a few days ago on my pre-post and thought the photo’s of the wood would go nicely.. and its amazing how on other posts I have come across the same messages recently 🙂 we are all tapping into the alchemy of our Life Force 🙂
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Renard Moreau
Nov 23, 2013 @ 18:04:48
[ Smiles ] Very beautiful, Sue. And, LOVE is always the answer!
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:24:55
Renard, thanking you for taking the time to add your comment… Love is always the answer yes indeed! 🙂 xx
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marina kanavaki
Nov 23, 2013 @ 18:56:55
“Love is the answer”… yes, my dear Sue and how beautifully written!
Enjoy a beautiful and serene weekend, much like your wood photos! 🙂 xxxx
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:24:08
Marina, Many thanks again for adding your light to my pages, I am pleased you enjoyed the wood photos 🙂
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Christy Birmingham
Nov 23, 2013 @ 19:37:13
Love really is the answer!! You sum up thoughts so beautifully! Wishing you a lovely weekend ❤
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:23:26
Christy, Thank you dear friend, your comments always appreciated ,, I hope you have a wonderful weekend and a Holiday Wish sent your way if its your Thanksgiving soon! xox
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Christy Birmingham
Nov 25, 2013 @ 17:24:07
Ah, in Canada we already had Thanksgiving. It it the American time coming up ((turkey time!)). Sending you a Monday hug~
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 18:56:41
🙂 I never know the difference LOL, loved my Monday Hug xxx
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Gray Dawster
Nov 23, 2013 @ 20:45:03
How lovely my great friend
you have a wonderful talent
for writing Sue 🙂 🙂
Enjoy a (hopefully) frost-free weekend…
Andro xxxx
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:35:26
Thank you Andro and pleased you enjoyed this one 🙂
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Gray Dawster
Nov 25, 2013 @ 08:28:23
I always enjoy your writing Sue 🙂
Have a lovely start to your Monday
my sweet and great friend 🙂
I love your recipes too, so deliciously prepared 😉
Andro xxxx
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 13:38:05
Andro, thank you kindly for your comment, and for your walking around my kitchen .. I need to get more walking done though lol 🙂 or those delightful bakes will be putting on the pounds over winter! 🙂
Have a great day 🙂
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Gray Dawster
Nov 25, 2013 @ 22:46:54
I am already in need of losing a few pounds, I started off really well six weeks ago and after a month I sort off dropped off the wagon, and cheated myself with a few chocolates and biscuits, ahhh well there is always next year 😉 🙂 lol
Have a wonderful Tuesday Sue 🙂
Andro xxxx
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Sharon Harris
Nov 23, 2013 @ 21:07:25
Sending you Holliday blessings
of love and light this frosty day.
Your poem is as beautiful
as your open heart, Sue.
love Sharon
One Conscious Dreamer
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:22:05
Sharon, many thanks for your Holiday Blessings, I send you my love back, and thank you kindly for your love xxx
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prenin
Nov 23, 2013 @ 21:58:04
Love IS the answer – and I’ve hugged my share of trees!!! 🙂
Beautiful poem hun!!! 🙂
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:20:34
Glad to hear you have been a huggin Prenin 🙂 thank you 🙂 for your Squishy Hugs xox
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Alex Jones
Nov 23, 2013 @ 22:12:12
All individuals are children of nature, who only need to remember this to return back to a harmony with nature.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:19:21
Alex so true, we just need to reach out and feel her! 🙂
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shreejacob
Nov 23, 2013 @ 23:48:49
Beautifully written Sue! Loved the feeling of expansion as I read the words 🙂
In this 3D world it’s sometimes hard to feel that we are all connected. We are so trained to depend on our senses that we have completely forgotten the subtle knowing.
This may sound weird but yesterday at work there was this little house fly that kept buzzing around me. It landed on the sleeve of my blouse. I looked at that little thing, and went into my heart..and just for a moment allowed it to expand…to include that little fly…and before I knew it…there was this feeling of love for it. For the fly!! Then it landed on my hand and that tickled..so I shooed it away..lol.
It was a fleeting experience…but I felt something and that something was good. I looked up the meaning for the animal totem – fly. It was interesting what it said too!
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:18:42
Arrgh so at last you are meeting your irritating little friends and sending them love, haha, maybe now they have given you their message you will keep sending them love and they will no longer irritate you.. We are all of us connected after all 🙂 hehe!… I will have to look up the fly totem, and see what is says, as I know the little midges have been finding their way into our home, and when I am on the PC the light from the screen has attracted them so they have been irritating me too 🙂 Big smiles,, So I really need to take a look at their message Hehe ! thank you for the reminder!
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shreejacob
Nov 25, 2013 @ 00:46:14
LOL. Well the little one didn’t irritate me after that. No idea where he flew off to, but then one of those BIG fat ones started disturbing me 😛
Let’s hope that one day this may extend (not as close….as that housefly sitting on my sleeve) to those insects I’m actually terrified of!
I was quite intrigued about the Fly totem. It made me realise that the fly in itself is not bad… 🙂
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 13:35:23
I looked up the Fly, and found a very interesting story in Native American Lore, about the fly! 🙂
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cosmicnovaqueen
Nov 24, 2013 @ 01:47:50
Beautiful written and very touching! Nature is my life and I find refuge and peace in the woods. Beautiful pictures too. Have a blessed day!
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:14:58
I think Rosa, we connect to our ancient standing ones of the wood, and they impart their peace should we wish to seek it.. Lovely to see you again thank you for your comment 🙂
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Lois Field
Nov 24, 2013 @ 02:16:06
Sue, I needed to hear this today, it’s been a tough day and your poem and pictures brought a smile finally to my face. Thank you.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:13:02
Lois, I was sorry to hear its been a tough day for you, I hope today brings brighter smiles, And was happy this brought you a smile xxx
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Lois Field
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:38:32
Thank you, Sue. Today is a peaceful day as I get ready for my trip. Thank you again for bringing a bit of lightness to my day.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:42:00
Any time Lois, you bring loads into my day! 😀 xxx
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Lois Field
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:43:12
🙂
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jacksjottings
Nov 24, 2013 @ 12:50:42
Nice one Sue and quiet a coincidence it resonates with the writing I did today..
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:11:02
Nothing is ever by chance I have found as we each of us tap into the Universal Consciousness! 🙂
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David
Nov 24, 2013 @ 13:05:18
Beautiful amalgam of sight and sound blended with love … can’t wait to share … woods are my favourite places. Love David
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:09:31
Yes David, the woods hold a magic all of their own, love walking in them, and finding a old tree to hug 🙂 and connect with x
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Paul Handover
Nov 24, 2013 @ 14:10:25
Beautifully written, Sue.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:08:32
Paul thank you very much 🙂
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Sabina Brave
Nov 24, 2013 @ 15:54:44
Beautiful poem and great message to the world 🙂
Have a nice rest of the day, Sue 🙂
Much love for you.
xoxox
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:08:10
Sabina, many thanks, always so good to see you here, much love sent in return xox
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lavendermoongirlblog
Nov 24, 2013 @ 16:05:18
Love is the key. Beautiful poem. I loved your walk Sue! 🙂 xxx
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 24, 2013 @ 17:07:00
Thank you Lavender Girl, nothing beats a nature walk 🙂
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pictimilitude
Nov 24, 2013 @ 22:06:32
Lord of the Dance…I met the Source…we are one.
So powerful.
So, so powerful.
One day though my meditations I want to be in touch with the Source.
Your poem made me think of something else:
Why do so many people turn away from love when it feels so much better than greed or dislike?
I’ve always wondered that. Is it that they spend so much time chasing dreams that they forget why they exist?
Oh my goodness…I feel another poem brimming.
You see what you’ve done to me? 😉
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 12:54:09
hehe! good, I love your poetic side Cyndi, and yes I think people ARE too busy chasing Dreams, and forget to live in their moments.. They forget to love themselves, and they have so lost their way in the chase they forget what dreams are made of.. For they think the journey to happiness is to accumulate wealth, So they work ever harder gathering possessions. ( including people) and want to horde and control everything around them.. They are not happy, because once they have the things in their lives, such as a spouse, or wealth, then they think everyone else is out to take it from them, So they are in states of being over possessive, or jealous or envious of others who have what they can not find..
A vicious circle and all the while they forget the most important thing of all.. They forget to LOVE themselves…
Look forward to you poem 🙂
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Crowing Crone Joss
Nov 25, 2013 @ 06:09:35
http://wp.me/p1ODsm-2Y
I think we were weaving together this weekend, poetry, the oneness that is all.
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Valentine Logar
Nov 25, 2013 @ 08:12:21
What a lovely combination Sue. Your walk brought together wonderful beauty.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 13:36:20
Val thank you so much, glad you enjoyed. I need to get in more walking while I am off this week 🙂
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giselzitrone
Nov 25, 2013 @ 10:08:47
Einen schönen Montag wünsche ich dir,so wunderschöne Worte die du wieder geschrieben hast ein schönes Gedicht aber wenn sich jeder an die Liebe halten würde gebe es weniger Leid auf der Welt.Wünsche dir eine glückliche schöne Woche liebe Grüße Gislinde
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 13:42:57
Danke Gislinde, ja, Sie so richtig sind, wenn wir alle gehalten, die Liebe in unserem Leben, wäre die Welt wie ein besserer Ort sein .. Senden Sie große Umarmungen mein Freund und ich hoffe, dass Sie Ihre Woche ist so sonnig wie dein Lächeln 🙂
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Kenny2dogs
Nov 25, 2013 @ 11:51:19
It is a cold sunny morning here, kenny thinks , after reading this post he shall go for a short walk in what is left of the woods. There is a rivlet running through it and who knows, I may catch a glimpse of blue as the Kingfisher flashes by . love to see him.
Be well Sue x
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 13:44:15
Oh I do hope you see a Kingfisher Kenny, stunningly beautiful birds .. And I hope your walk will be refreshing in the Sun.. Thank you for taking time to visit my friend and I hope all is well with your good self. 🙂 xx
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Aneesh
Nov 25, 2013 @ 18:40:28
Not just our kind but love other creatures of world with same heart….
Nice as always 🙂
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 18:58:56
Hi Aneesh, yes ALL creatures Great and small Aneesh! 🙂 lovely to see you and hope all is well with yourself?
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Aneesh
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:22:18
I am good… hope all is well over there… 🙂 busy with work… finding it hard to balance everything…… but happy as always 🙂
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:26:42
That is all that matters… and glad you are Happy! 🙂
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coastalcrone
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:36:16
Your poem brings a universal message as we are all children of the universe. We do get back what we give. Lovely thoughts and photos to match! Peace and love to you and yours.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:40:02
Thank you my friend, and we are each guided through the universe should we care to listen to its call… The time to listen is right now 🙂
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Duma Key
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:46:57
Winter falls fast, yet there is a kind of beauty in it…..that I never saw before! I guess I see things differently now. Wise words only through completeness of the soul can we complete ourselves.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:49:55
Wondered about you Duma, as you have been kinda quiet for a while.. But I am really pleased to see you, and extra pleased you are seeing a kind of beauty in winter as you view things ‘differently’ now… And so I have a smile inside that tells me you are at last finding that completeness within your own self! .. Which brings an ever wider smile as I send you some of Life’s Force your way 😀
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Duma Key
Nov 25, 2013 @ 19:59:45
I needed some time away from things, to adjust. Sat one night laptop on, tablet at my side, iPhone beeping and watching a DVD on the playstation suddenly realised how crazy all this was, how dependant upon technology I had become, and how much it dictated my life. So I bought books, took walks by the river, went for runs, took time to see the reality behind the image in which we live…..Drew energy from the isolation of pure escape, in a world who’s beauty we forget to really see, recharged my batteries !!!!
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 25, 2013 @ 20:04:52
🙂 Brilliant and Good for you, and Welcome to the world of Nature and I hope you are now recharged and at last you are upon the road of discovering ‘Who you Are!’ my friend, we first have to walk some stony ground and climb a few obstacles. Good to see you running and looking about you 🙂 as you begin to see your reflection in the river of life! 🙂
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ctanktforever
Nov 26, 2013 @ 12:26:26
Sue, Beautiful Poem. I agree that LOVE transforms all things. I have a break from school & thought I would drop by to say hello. Hope you’re well. Enjoy this glorious day! Christy
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 27, 2013 @ 11:15:46
Thank you Christy, enjoy your holiday break and loved your cake 🙂
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ctanktforever
Dec 10, 2013 @ 14:41:58
You are welcome! Thank you! Enjoy your Holiday as well!
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aFrankAngle
Nov 27, 2013 @ 12:51:26
It seems this was a particular glorious walk … we done at embracing the moment. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours in the UK.
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 27, 2013 @ 13:00:22
Thank you Frank.. Enjoy your family time 🙂
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natswans
Nov 27, 2013 @ 14:30:30
Lovely Sue I love the way you express things and yes Love is indeed the answer.
Hope you are having a good week.
Hugs Sheila
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Sue Dreamwalker
Nov 27, 2013 @ 14:47:25
Thank you Sheila, and yes I am enjoying a day all by myself today to indulge in the things I enjoy today… Love back and Hugs too 🙂 xxx
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Eddie Two Hawks
Dec 06, 2013 @ 16:11:40
Love is the answer! You are the light that shines through the darkest night filling hearts with your love.
thank you Dreamwalker for your kind words, Eddie
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Sue Dreamwalker
Dec 06, 2013 @ 16:13:16
Thank you Eddie for your kind words x 🙂
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aussieian2011
Dec 10, 2013 @ 22:33:05
Beautifully written and put together Sue, looking at the pictures I feel the same emotions that you put into words, you cannot fail to feel love and oneness in that environment.
Regards
Ian
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Sue Dreamwalker
Dec 11, 2013 @ 18:27:30
Thank you Ian, your visits are always most welcome as I so appreciate your feed back and comments my good friend… Lovely to see you 🙂
Sue
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DG MARYOGA
Aug 25, 2015 @ 00:43:20
Your poem a real hymn to Nature & Love ~ You are such a blessed person!
Now,back to your paradise … C U there,Doda ❤ xxx
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Sue Dreamwalker
Aug 25, 2015 @ 19:43:37
Bless you Doda for taking the trouble to follow the Link. 🙂 xxx
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