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Phrase: Fall through the cracks
Summer is the time for patio and deck parties, strolling on boardwalks and crossing over suspension bridges.
Sadly, it’s also the time when many coins, keys and earrings fall through the cracks to disappear forever into the dark world beneath the surface.
Those, however, are only material things.
They are possessions that can be replaced, perhaps not all very easily, but they can be replaced nonetheless.
More tragic, and way too often, are the people who fall through the cracks.
No, I do not mean you will find a community of lost people living under boardwalks and suspension bridges, unable or unaware of how to get out.
Then again, maybe I do.
The people who fall through the cracks are the ones whom society has forgotten and is no longer willing to offer help.
They are the homeless, the single mother, the high school dropout, the immigrant who was never able to learn the language of her new country and is now doomed to menial jobs earning a meagre income for the rest of her life.
It’s easier than you may think to fall through the cracks.
A neglected child may drop out of high school and quickly find themselves tempted by drugs, alcohol or even worse.
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Sometimes, an illness or injury is all it takes for a person like you and me to fall through the cracks after not receiving the support they desperately need.
As you go about your life today, take a moment to wonder how your life could have been different if you had fallen through the cracks.
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