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 Family Secrets by Raymond A. Foss 
						Little and big secretssilence, unsharing
 from shame, for protection
 blank spots
 in the telling
 of our story
 
 Carved off areas
 sometimes casually shared
 As if we knew, forgetting the secret
 the missing words
 names crossed from address books
 pain pushed down
 
 Missing memories
 scraps of childhood
 undiscussed.
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