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Remembering

July 11, 2010
By Ramzan SILVER, Loveland, Ohio
Ramzan SILVER, Loveland, Ohio
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It’s funny really, how she can’t remember. Remember before, that is. Like her life’s been divided into pre-divorce and post-divorce. There’s only him leaving, and the years afterwards.


In the beginning, she remembers crying. The loud, selfish wails of a child, and her mother sitting beside her. The days when it was so much easier to slip into the role of just one more anonymous kid at school than to be at home and face the screaming fights with both voices audible even through the phone. The times when she’d cry to her rows of stuffed animals that it just wasn’t fair. The times when she saw her friends and their happyhappy lives and their happyhappy dads and it

Hurt.

So.

Much.



Then she remembers after, when she grew up a little, and her tears came only at night, soft and hidden. The times when she took her turn to be strong and held her mother when she cried. Remembers being sprawled in bed, looking out the window, and swearing on everything that she would run away and join a freaking convent before she would do this to her own kids.


The way she dealt with it might have changed, but the hurt never did. Small, compared to the kid’s who’s parents were in jail, or dead, or alcoholics who spent their days nursing hangovers, but it was all she knew, and it was all that made her.



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on Aug. 22 2010 at 2:39 pm
MercedesXO DIAMOND, South Easton, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
"I realize that life is risks. It's acknowledging the past but looking forward. It's taking chances that we will make mistakes but believeing we all deserve to be forgiven."
-The Dead Tossed Waves.

i thought this was good. i like the raw emotions portrayed throughout the piece. i will say i liked the second half a lot better. but great job anyways!!

on Aug. 16 2010 at 6:40 am
sleeplessdreamer PLATINUM, Raleigh, North Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"I have always wanted to write in such a way that people say, 'I have always thought that but never found the words for it.'" -anonymous

What the...? O my... WOW!!! This is perfect. I don't know how many "perfect pieces" I've ever come across. (Trust me, I'm a harsh critic. I search for things wrong with pieces.) WOW... You put so much life into such a few words. So much pain and story in so few sentences. You encompasses so much of the character with just a few paragraphs. This breathtaking and marvelous. Amazing job. This had to take some serious talent. 

I hate to say this, because it sounds like soliciting, but I'm going to be undignified and do it anyway. If you could check out my work sometime, I would really appreciate it.... Getting kind of desperate. :)


on Jul. 31 2010 at 11:50 am
Shannon_Bananon, Loveland, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
About talking; why don't people ever think before they talk? It would save so much trouble; it would also save me from wanting to slap about half of the world's population.
~Fictional Character (Brilliant, but, sadly, fake.)

It made me sniffle. But really good, in sad sorta way.