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  • Dear Mr. Santa Klaus

    AN: My wish this year.Dear Mr. Santa Klaus, Every year I demand something newlike an Xbox 360or another gift I think is "cool."This year is not like the restbecause my ...

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  • Grammatical Error?

    To you, my parents. Mother dearest, do not put thy hand on me and tell me to lay down. Lay down and go to sleep. Lay down and be meek. ...

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  • Falling

    I think I am falling.What's standing, when you fall your whole life.When I land, I know it will hurt.Now I long for it.I want my legs to snap under me.I ...

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  • All I am

    I am ignorant because I state my opinion.I am a liarbecause I strive to please.I am an idiotbecause if I wasn't, you'd leave.I am coarsebecause I know what matters.I am ...

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  • Crimson love

    A sea of redbefore mine eyes.Crashing wavesfall over my head.Hand gripping,grabbing,pulling,tugging me under.Choking mein your grasp.Falling fasterBreathing fasterBeating fasterScreams hiddenunder wav

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  • And so I write.

    When I was younger, I felt dead heart was breaking, as surely as my mother's was.Daddy didn't want to stay with us, and it was my sister was three.She can't ...

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  • For death begins at life's first breath, while life begins a

    Heat on her face,radiating to her toes.Breaths on her shoulder,whispers in her ear.That shuddering sensation.They're tickling her,moving up her body.She lets out a gasp,as sensations rivet through her

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"In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls -- with the great outside world."
— Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery