Thank you to everyone who has shared their experiences in this thread. I am finding them very useful.
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"...at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage." - Harold and Maude, 1971
"I am a rainbow in somebody's cloud." - Maya Angelou
My Poetry :
http://loveregardless.blogspot.com