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as the evening twilight fades away

as the evening twilight fades away - Brownsville General Hospital
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

from "Morituri Salutamus"
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Photograph taken at Setting Sun Retirement Home (a pseudonym) by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.


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