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<p class="MsoNormal">Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author</p> 

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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></u></p><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Leonard Tuchyner <tuchyner5@aol.com><br>To: group3@bluegrasspals.com <group3@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 6:00 pm<br>Subject: Leonard's comments re: Val's work<br><br></div><div id="yiv5021562701"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;">

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<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">This is a heart wrenching piece of
almost hopelessness. </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">But You hang on to the image of
salvation lying in an open space high<span style=""> 
</span>above the darkness. Clutched in torment is unbelievably powerful. </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Thickest dark gives dimension to
despair. </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">The verse which has<span style="">  </span>pennies gwisting away down drains, </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">taking with<span style="">  </span>it purpose , </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">is unforgettable. </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">But you have found healing before
above the<span style="">  </span>darkness </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">and you have the faith to reach for
it again. </span></u></b></p>

<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">And again. </span></u></b></p>

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<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;background:white;">Broken</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"><br>
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<span style="background:white;">Broken--</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">heart and spirit--</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">plunged in torment</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">deeper than thickest</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">dark.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white;">Loss--</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">purpose and meaning--</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">tumble like pennies</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">down drains that</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">twist out of sight.</span><br>
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<span style="background:white;">Far, far above,</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">there must be</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">bright hope, light--</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">I reach for it,</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">again and again,</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">believing it's where</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">healing waits</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">anew</span><br>
<span style="background:white;">All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish
the light of one candle.</span><br>
<span style="background:white;"> -Saint Francis of Assisi</span><br>
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<p class="yiv5021562701MsoNormal">Leonard I. Tuchyner, Author</p> 

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