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Well, first you were born.

Childhood stretched toward forever.

Then, suddenly, your life was torn

into before and after.

Before, you felt everything:

green leaves quivering,

the soft dance of dust

through rays of sun. You must

have somehow forgotten.

After, years passed almost instantly—

When did all of it happen?

Didn’t you just turn ten, or forty?

When was your daughter born?

How is it now already?