Mercury Grand Marquis/second Generation 1992%e2%80%931997

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    “The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
    What instruments we have agree
    The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
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    “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
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    “now and then
    there is a person born
    who is so unlucky
    that he runs into accidents
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    to somebody else”
    —Don Marquis (1878–1937)

    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)