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From: chking@unity.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER HOLLAND KING)
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Subject: Line: Roses
Date: 8 Jul 1994 18:08:02 -0500
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: I'd like to see the best ascii roses people have available. 

Well, these are the best I have to offer . . .

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    :    :   :        :      I say love it is a flower
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                  `::        It's the one who won't be taken
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      : .''          ::         and the road has been too long,
       :             ::      and you think that love is only
                      :         for the lucky and the strong,
                       :     just remember in the winter
                                far beneath the bitter snows
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