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August 7, 2014
By esthercurly PLATINUM, DPO, Other
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esthercurly PLATINUM, DPO, Other
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"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." –George R.R. Martin

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Separate piles
Of people.
Wedding steeple
Not allowed
Because you're proud
Of who you are.

Why can't they move
Past the different?
Desperate to change,
"Your kind is strange"
They place the blame
On your life.
Some claim
It themselves.

© Becca W., Greenbrae, CA

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Homophobia is not a fear. It's hate.
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