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\centerline {\large \bf HAPPENSTANCE}
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    Six humans trapped by happenstance, in the black and bitter cold.\\
    Each one possessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told.\\
    Their dying fire in need of logs, the first woman held hers back;\\
    For of the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black.\\
    The next man looking cross the way, saw one not of his church,\\
    And could not bring himself to give the fire his stick of birch.\\
    The third one sat in tattered clothes, and gave his coat a hitch.\\
    Why should his log be put to use to warm the idle rich?\\
    The rich man just sat back and thought of the wealth he had in store\\
    The black man's face bespoke revenge, as the fire passed from his\\
    For all he saw in his stick of wood was a chance to spite the white.\\
    And the last man of this forlorn group, did naught except for gain;\\
    For giving only to those who gave, was how he played the game.\\
    Their logs held tight in death-stilled hands, was proof of human sin,\\
    They did not die from the cold without, they died from the cold within.\\

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\hspace*{4in}-Albuquerque ACLD Newsletter
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