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I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling outunder the ochre sandstone arch, thered tiles glinting like bentplates of blood behind his head, Isee my mother with a few light books at her hipstanding at the pillar made of tiny bricks with thewrought-iron gate still open behind her, itssword-tips black in the May air, they are about to graduate, they are about to get married, they are kids, they are dumb, all they know is they areinnocent, they would never hurt anybody. I want to go up to them and say Stop, don't do it--she's the wrong woman, he's the wrong man, you are going to do thingsyou cannot imagine you would ever do, you are going to do bad things to children, you are going to suffer in ways you never heard of, you are going to want to die. I want to goup to them there in the late May sunlight and say it, her hungry pretty blank face turning to me, her pitiful beautiful untouched body, his arrogant handsome blind face turning to me, his pitiful beautiful untouched body, but I don't do it. I want to live. Itake them up like the male and femalepaper dolls and bang them togetherat the hips like chips of flint as if tostrike sparks from them, I say Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it
Sharon Olds parents poetry

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  1. Sharon Olds, e.g. 84.62%
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  13. Many Sharon Olds poems 66.67%
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Unscramble SHARON6-letter words that start with S6-letter words that end in N6-letter words containing HA6-letter words containing ON6-letter words with S and H
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
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TLAC
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BABY DOCTOR FOR SHORT
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