Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...Hello? This is your mother, are you there? Are you coming home?...Hello? Is anybody home?Well, you don't know me, but I know youAnd I've got a message to give to youAnd I said: okay, who is this really? And the voice said:This is the hand, the hand that takes...Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of nightShall stay these couriers from the swift completionOf their appointed rounds

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