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Since 1844 and Counting

'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' once wrote an English poet by name of Thomas Haynes Bayly who surely ought to know For Tom's been absent since 1844 ~ yet fonder of him I do not grow

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 8/23/2021 10:17:00 AM

(chuckle!) I have heard that all my life and had not the faintest idea where it came from. I would have thought Shakespeare...after all, he said almost everything else!

David Kavanagh

Date: 8/22/2021 11:15:00 AM

I think Gershon you may have slightly taken Toms proverb out of context, but you give us a good laugh in the process, cheers David

Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/22/2021 11:24:00 AM

Oh good, David! I'm only in this for the laughs, after all! Thanks a million! ~ gw