She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

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Back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the person who first turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry. Never allow an enemy to see weakness in you.

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Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for

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How far we claim to have come - accepting all men as created equal. Gender being the requisite qualifier, as women are not reviewed in the same fashion - their fashion hopefully better suited to the bedroom than the boardroom. And, you know, homosexuals not really being 'men,' cannot be judged equivalent to their stiffer-wristed brethren. On religion, well, some Christians are willing to make room for a Jew or two in their inner circles. But Mecca-facing prayer must be met with flaming crosses. Close your eyes to the details, the big picture can still be viewed through rose-colored glass. But go any distance beyond the rhetoric, truth becomes a shadowed lens.

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In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place.

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Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I expected disrespect. He called me beautiful. I expected him to expect perfection. He taught me all I needed to know.

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Once...Why...lie?...when...truth is...the easier path

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Might as Well Laugh...remember...when...Life...made...sense

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Have to Find...life...is...a— ...gamble...after ...all.

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Faces...I...don't...know...the real...me

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Home...Home....the word,...has...no...meaning

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It was the exact oppositefor me. At first all Iwanted was sex with her,but soon I wanted more.More sex, yes, in unusualplaces, and all different kinds.But that wasn't all. I wantedher to fill the empty spacesleft by a father who neveronce praised me, —friends' whoused me, an ice princess momwho raised me with glass kisses.

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I'll Stay...leave...me....I'll...follow...you.

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Possibilities...in the closet...itching...to break out...but afraid of...the fallout

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When You Weren't Looking...why....Can't you...care...more...about...me.

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Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be.

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We used to do coke, till Just Say No put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

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Sometimes,you don't wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same.

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...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything you do is kind of like that, too.

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A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept.

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