I just love mcradloff

Steve,
My first reaction to your acrostic was -->
How cool, just write a poem then put the letters of the first words in a line and challenge people to write an acrostic based on those letters - simples! Did you ask the challenge - setter 'Where the heck did you get a set of letters like that mate?' or was it based on a poem they'd already written?

Whatever the answer - I like your poem, I hope if you haven't done so already that you find 'her' before too long.

(can you do an acrostic using the last letter of each line?
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