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Family

Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
where she asks us to get creative in exactly 16
words using the prompt word ‘cherish’.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

Image by Me & Copilot

Decades. Generations. Love held.

A quiet look, the heart grows,

our family story to cherish,

always.

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16 Words

This is “Photographs and Memories” by Jim Croce

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