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backtoblue

(11,343 posts) Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:00 AM Feb 2018

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"Life is like a roller coaster"

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"Life is like a roller coaster" (Original Post) backtoblue Feb 2018 OP

Are you nobody too? raging moderate Feb 2018 #1

! backtoblue Feb 2018 #2

To tell your name, the livelong day, raging moderate Feb 2018 #3

Emily Dickinson backtoblue Feb 2018 #4

Oh, yeah, Emily Dickinson! raging moderate Feb 2018 #5

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)

1. Are you nobody too?

Reply to backtoblue (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:16 AM

Feb 2018

Don't tell! They'd banish us, you know.

backtoblue

(11,343 posts)

2. !

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:18 AM

Feb 2018

How public like a frog!

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)

3. To tell your name, the livelong day,

Reply to backtoblue (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:21 AM

Feb 2018

to an admiring bog!

I hope I have remembered it correctly! It has been several decades since I read it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay?

backtoblue

(11,343 posts)

4. Emily Dickinson

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:23 AM

Feb 2018

Hope is the thing with feathers ...
Is probably my favorite poem by her.

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)

5. Oh, yeah, Emily Dickinson!

Reply to backtoblue (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 12:25 AM

Feb 2018

How could I forget! My mother's favorite poet!

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