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winter...

+ cold setting in/ pink lips/ knitting/ counting babies before they have hatched/ picnics/ being your lover / knee socks with short skirts/ soup/ tacky gold everything/ sunkissed kiddie ringlets/ dew / wide eyed pirate smiles

- cold feet and noses/ rocking the boat / early morning / forgotten umbrellas / hooker lips / thistles

The leaves fall from the trees in my garden each passing day I pull my jacket tighter around me, yet still feel red hott from the inside out

the then the now