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Skin and Bones

January 2, 2013
By kate_anne PLATINUM, Cedartown, Georgia
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kate_anne PLATINUM, Cedartown, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
-Stephen King

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Sometimes at night she cries
in the light of the moon.
She is tired of hiding.

All her life has been
is just running away.
She is so sick of trying.

People only want her skin and bones
so she hides in the woods all alone.

© Allison H., Vancouver, WA

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