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Book 7 Page 21
Within seconds
At one moment I was watching smiling faces,
The next, I was seeing tragic human suffering.
In less than a blink of an eye I was high above the earth.
Then in a flash, there was death and destruction before my very eyes.
No, I was not hallucinating,
I was watching TV.
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