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Before the Story Comes

January 29, 2014
By alanacarlene DIAMOND, Mexia, Texas
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alanacarlene DIAMOND, Mexia, Texas
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Silence screams too honestly and loudly.<br /> -Alex (aka GangstaEyes)<br /> Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four.<br /> -Winston Smith &#039;1984&#039;<br /> Don&#039;t go wishin&#039; your life away...<br /> -Daddy S2<br /> &quot;What a drag it was to be limited by reality.&quot;

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First word...(s) to begin my story.
But I don't know my character
well enough.
Dawn.
Who is Dawn?
She is beauty;
A glowing and unknowing life
of the darkness that will befall
her.
I don't know her,
but I know
Dawn will succumb
to Dusk.

© Karen C., Holbrook, MA

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The first steps I've walked in the beginning of Dawn's story...
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