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A HEART WRENCHING MOURNING BECOME SO POWERFUL BY ITS POETIC FORMAL RESTRAINT AND THE USE OF BOTH METONYMY (RASBERRIES AND STRAWBERRIES) AND SYNECDOCHE (THE FINGERS).

I CAN'T FORGET HOW AT ALL MILITARY CEMETARIES PARENTS MOURN THEIR BABIES.

Someone whose development has been arrested at some painful stage of his/her early development, has sent me a message, presumably horrified by the thought that I actually referred to real babies in those military cemeteries. As my returned message proved to be a dead end I just wish to remove any doubt that I was talking about the emotional bond between parents and their sons and daughters. For them, and no matter at what age the lost son or daughter is always their baby.