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  The Hardest Part

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  The hardest part is that it’s the little things the things that shouldn’t matter yet they add up, pile up, to bury me. Forgetting to tell me we’re eating somewhere else and leaving me to wonder, alone until I look over and see you all laughing at another table. Deciding to say hello...
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  Communication?

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  Their avid assurances to us that communication was ever so important and good families shouldn’t function without it. Their confusion when we brought up the lack of it, the numerous things that were staying left unsaid. But we talk to you, and you talk to us! It’s beyond fine! The â...
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  The Mask

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  What would people think if I came without my mask in place with my feelings all jumbled up and so terrible revealed? Would people take advantage of my scatter-brained defenselessness? Or my unknowing vulnerability as I try to get my thoughts in some kind of order? Would I become the...
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  Alone

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  Pick your partners the teacher said. I groaned inwardly as everyone got to their feet. I stood there, like the eye of a storm. Unmoving. As the people rushed toward each other. I shut my eyes to block them out It didn't help. I could hear them giggling laughing holding hands together...
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  Looking Back

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  We were once one of the same we laughed and we cried together sharing life and laughs with so much in common But now, what went wrong? Where did our paths veer so far from each others? You have found another. someone else to laugh with leaving me alone in the cold and dark af...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Bitter Memories

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH

  I sighed as I threw the rock and watched it lightly skip along the surface of the water, marring the perfect velvet surface with tiny ripples. The night air was cool, and I was doing my best not to think of anything at all, just revel in the beautiful night. The rock I sat on was cool, and the water...
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  Lilies

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH
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  Summoning a Spark

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH
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  Fields of Purple

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH
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  Pasque Flower

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH
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  Spring's Delivery

  

  By perfectsymmetry18, Durham, NH