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Walking the Line
By mchan93 BRONZE
Braintree, Massachusetts

It was completely innocent; no harm or offense meant. But still, it hung in the air. Her face was red. I empathized, I knew the feeling—when you let something slip out, by the t...
mchan93 BRONZE, Braintree, Massachusetts
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Bruised But Not Broken
By Abirdwithoutwings PLATINUM
Medford, Oregon
Abirdwithoutwings PLATINUM, Medford, Oregon
31 articles 0 photos 3 comments

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When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

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New Skin, Please
By Jas1234567890 GOLD
Yorba Linda, California
Jas1234567890 GOLD, Yorba Linda, California
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What goes up, must come down? Try me.
By Jas1234567890 GOLD
Yorba Linda, California
Jas1234567890 GOLD, Yorba Linda, California
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The Definition of Fun is Not Alcohol
By Henry Nguyen BRONZE
Quincy, Massachusetts
Henry Nguyen BRONZE, Quincy, Massachusetts
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Life as a Screenplay
By bookstorejunkie BRONZE
Diamond Bar, California
bookstorejunkie BRONZE, Diamond Bar, California
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein

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My Deepest Fear
By Justin Menke BRONZE
New Fairfield, Connecticut
Justin Menke BRONZE, New Fairfield, Connecticut
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In The Mouth of The Whale
By Mansamusa BRONZE
Palo Alto, California
Mansamusa BRONZE, Palo Alto, California
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Love your life! Quite cliche but I guess that's me - a ball of pop culture with some arms and feet. As discreet as I've tried to keep the drama and cancer its no secret that I hunger for someone to read the answers.

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Words, words, words
By videotaped GOLD
Geneva, New York
videotaped GOLD, Geneva, New York
19 articles 18 photos 14 comments

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"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a little."
- The Celtic Twilight, W. B. Yeats

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In the Wake
By Anonymous