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and off to the hospital,
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Just as we from our side slowly drifted back to the house.
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The sun was down, the excitement over,
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we sat down to dinner.
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It was then, that I noticed Harriet wasn't there.
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And she wasn't there the next morning. Or the next.
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Or the next forty years.
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What was she going to tell me?
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Why didn't I make time for her?
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Why didn't I listen?
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- And she couldn't have run away? - Not without being seen.
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Firemen stayed on the bridge all night