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New Year’s Acknowledgements

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Spare a thought for those
to whom the outgoing year has not been kind,
those whose years have been free of milestones,
whose desires have not come to fruition,
those still awaiting their turn.

Spare a thought for those
whom fortune did not favour,
the quiet ones on this night filled with noise,
whose journeys…

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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Lauren Phillips-Freeman is a language teacher and writer with a love of words in all their forms. She uses writing to help her process her own tangled emotions.