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Dave Eidson














                                    I am a 63 year old man from             hobby of playing the keyboard

                                    the Lake of the Ozarks,                 and writing songs.
                                    Missouri. I graduated in 1974
                                    from Mack’s Creek, Missouri             I wrote “Can You Hear the
                                    as valedictorian. I was voted           Angel’s” because I felt that the

                                    most scholarly and most likely  message of Christmas had
                                    to succeed. For personal                been lost among some
                                    reasons, I didn’t attend                Christian churches. Peace on
                                    college but went to work at the  Earth, good will to men, for

                                    various industries in the area.         God so loved the world and
                                    I spent the last thirty years           not just Christians, etc. Peace
                                    working at Blair Cedar until            had been replaced by war, love
                                    I quit to care for my invalid           by hate. They wanted to take

                                    mom until her death. I have             the name of Christ but ignore
                                    dabbled at writing short                his central message. Not just
                                    stories and had a story that I          message but a commandment,
                                    co-wrote with a friend                  love not just your neighbors

                                    published in a book called              but also your enemies.
                                    the Book of Exodi titled “The
                                    Huntress of Aveleor”. I also            Http://soundcloud.com/ozark-
                                    did digital art and had a poem  bluefox

                                    in the book. Now I enjoy the



































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