I read your blog and forgot you weren’t talking to me.<\/p>\n
I wanted to ask you something about home,
\nabout what you saw in Oakland the night Obama won.<\/p>\n
The hardest part about being away is missing things like this,
\nholidays, tragedies and sudden defining moments,
\nwhere all at once, everything changes forever,
\nagain.
\nYou said it was like we’d won the World Cup.
\nA foreign metaphor. <\/p>\n
What I want to know is: Did you think of me?
\nBut what I want to ask is: Tell me who you saw and what they did.
\nBut what I want to say is: I miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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