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Length: 4:39 ~ Listen or Podcast from iTunes.

Many years ago, simultaneous holidays might have seemed odd or some kind of ironic cultural juxtaposition, but it seems we've reached a point where that now raises no eyebrows and somehow makes perfect sense. Also making perfect sense and in perfect tempo, Wallace McRae recited this original poem, and held the audience spellbound, during the 1997 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

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