...I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.  
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It’s a million interpretations wide
But can hold just one truth inside

A string of chances connects the real ends
Simple twists seem like impossible bends
From the far end, everything’s fair enough to try
Small enough to forgive and big enough to take you high

Forget the last time you took this same turn
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I haven't been very active here in a while... but lately I've been wanting to connect with people who are hopeful, optimistic, in a very practical way, about the future of the world.

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This is somehow funny coming from a man whom the [url=http://www.tibetsun.com/archive/2010/05/05/irishman-richard-moore-is-my-hero-dalai-lama/]Dalai Lama[/url] refers to as “my hero.”

Well known to the residents of Derry, Ireland, where we met last month, Richard Moore was shot at the age of 10 by a British solider on]]> ***
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