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fifty

50 years 18,262 days 438,288 hours 26,297,280 minutes

1,577,836,800 seconds 7 children 17 grandchildren

4 great-grandchildren, thousands upon thousands

of permutations and exchanges, interactions

like building blocks of a golden tower

reaching back through your lives and forward into the future...

compare it to a tree, a chain, a deep root system holding a

family together, the lifeblood of each child

each grandchild, each great-grandchild

without you, we aren't here

with you, the world is ours

regb