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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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