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Yes. It's horrible for me.
I have two degrees and I treasured a lifetime of knowledge, of literacy, of aesthetics.
All of that is now lost to me.
When I still had a sense of humor I used to laugh it off saying
"I've forgotten more than most ever bother to learn."
It's no fun. It's a tremendous loss of self that no amount of feel good band aids can help.
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Traveling west back toward Eden (interestingly the wise men in the Gospel account of Jesus' birth came from the East), has been full of confrontation with
the trials and tribulations of living outside the Garden.
She is an artist without doubt disappointed that paradise was not as close in 1969 as she and so many others hoped it was. Her work is now filled with the reality of humanity's failure to achieve the prophetic dream of her song, but never without the hope that that day will yet come.
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