East is East, and…
East is East, and West is West, / and never the twain shall meet. // – (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936): The Ballad of East and West (Image by Ylanite Koppens from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
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