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A wallet lost in Buffalo
\nwas found in Montreal.
\nA couple in the Grande Hotel
\nespied it in the hall.
\nNo money left inside it,
\nand no credit cards as well,
\nbut photos there
\nthat would be missed.
\nThat was not hard to tell.
\nA small boy with a missing tooth;
\na girl with bright red hair.
\nA woman who could be a wife;
\na smiling elder pair.
\nThey mailed it back to Buffalo,
\nan address found within.
\n"We’re sorry for your loss," they wrote.
\n"Take comfort in your kin."<\/p>\n

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