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She refused to budge
Or borrow.
She would not allow herself
The slightest
Reach.
“If it ain’t broke,” she said,
Hiding sorrow –
Holding on to life
In tatters
Yet refusing to
Give in even
A stitch –
“There is no need to seek
A fix.”
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: Fix
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Na'ama Yehuda 
I love this, Na’ama. Coulda used it for my MIL!!
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Hugs, my friend. I just read your post and I thought … this could match some we know and knew … xoxo
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No kidding!!!
xoxo
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Maybe it was meant to be …
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I like to think so.
I was looking at that quadrille prompt, considering doing it. We’ll see.
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If you will write it, I will read … 🙂
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You are the best!
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😀
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Deep character study in 44 words, Na’ama. I’ve known people like her. I’ve been people like her. Well-done.
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Thank you, my friend. Many of us know people like her, and some of us admit to being a little like her, at least some of the time about some of the things … Here’s to mirrors.
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Nice! I think I have know some folks like this… maybe have been one myself!
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Thank you … and … I think maybe more of us had been this – or will be this, or both – at least some of the time … 🙂
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Yes you opened us up with this one!
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🙂
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I love the rhyme pattern in this. This was my parents, to a T. If it could be fixed, we did NOT buy a new one!
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I’m glad you liked it!
And … I think it probably is a lot of people, to some degree, some more literally than others (you should see my dinosaur TV … it is one of those that has a slot for a VCR and another for a DVD … and it works. And I’m keeping it and using it. Because it works. So there.) 😉
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Yep, that works, that resonates. 🙂
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🙂
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I always like the simpler version myself. (K)
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I hear ya! Me, too, often!
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I like her attitude!!!!
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Thank you, Helen! I’m glad you do. I’m a tad worried for her, but it seems like she knows what she needs and what is right for her at the moment … so that has to do … 😉
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I think that keeping everything inside like that will build up some pressure…. can’t be good.
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Yeah … can’t be good … though for some, this may be the only way they know how to be …
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Nice lines: ““If it ain’t broke,” she said,
Hiding sorrow –”
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Thank you, Frank! 🙂
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This poem I read twice, like a second glance into the mirror. I’m sure we’ve all been there at some point, or with some type of something that in reality needs fixing. Stubbornness often becomes a barrier.
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Thanks for reading and commenting, Mish. Yes, I think we have all been there in one way or another, about one thing or another. ….
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