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How old are you when you receive this poem?

I am sixteen years old

You're wide awake, now, I remember, the home shaken by that midnight call on the phone

I am sixteen years old

Your parents, woken, rushed out, in their panic - they've left you alone

I am sixteen years old

You know, in this moment of pounding heart and uncertainty, without being told

I am sixteen years old

that the world's been splintered, like the tree you'll see, down the bend in the road

I am sixteen years old

And he was nineteen

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