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I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there's a garden inside me.
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They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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September 3, 1959
(age 65)
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Shane Geoffrey Jones is a former New Zealand politician for the Labour Party who is currently Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development. Jones was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.
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