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By emaybaum17 BRONZE
Roswell, Georgia

Five years ago I wrote a letter to a man we'll call J.C. I had never met this man or seen his face, but from the moment I heard his name, I knew I hated him. At the time, he was 17...
emaybaum17 BRONZE, Roswell, Georgia
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

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By dgpets6 BRONZE
Shell Beach, California
dgpets6 BRONZE, Shell Beach, California
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To go to the dark with a light, is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark." -W. Berry

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By Anonymous
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By AnnaStrz BRONZE
Westfield, Massachusetts
AnnaStrz BRONZE, Westfield, Massachusetts
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.&quot; <br /> -Sylvia Plath

Nonfiction
By StarCrossed SILVER
Holualoa, Hawaii
StarCrossed SILVER, Holualoa, Hawaii
9 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Your virtue is my privledge. For you in my respect are all the world. Then how can it be said I am alone when all the world is here to look upon me?&quot;

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StarCrossed SILVER, Holualoa, Hawaii
9 articles 1 photo 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Your virtue is my privledge. For you in my respect are all the world. Then how can it be said I am alone when all the world is here to look upon me?&quot;

TheGirlWhoDancesWithSnowflakes SILVER, Sunnyvale, Texas
8 articles 0 photos 99 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the world together.&quot; <br /> <br /> Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,<br /> &quot;What! You too? I thought I was the only one.&quot;<br /> - C. S. Lewis

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By lsmbibliophile GOLD
Hayward, California
lsmbibliophile GOLD, Hayward, California
16 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Live and Let Live&quot;- Marc Elliot<br /> &quot;Keep Calm and Carry On&quot; - British #kcaco<br /> &quot;&ldquo;Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one&#039;s heart, it&#039;s pleasures, and it&#039;s pains, to a dear friend.&quot; - Francois Fenelon

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ElectricButterfly BRONZE, Villanova, Pennsylvania
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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2Kay12 BRONZE, Sanford, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Smile, even if it&#039;s a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the saddness of now knowning how to smile&quot; ~Someone wise :)