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By Tiger_Lil SILVER
Osterville, Massachusetts

You drove home after you hugged me. You listened to the playlist of songs that kept me up weeping last week. And I know you put them on shuffle. You told me never to do that and...
Tiger_Lil SILVER, Osterville, Massachusetts
5 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I have loved words and I have hated them and I have made them right."- The Book Thief: By Markus Zusak


#9452 Nonfiction
iDaReToDrEaM13 SILVER, Sharon Springs, New York
7 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.&quot;<br /> Confucius

#9453 Nonfiction
By mhaynes BRONZE
Reading, Massachusetts
mhaynes BRONZE, Reading, Massachusetts
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#9455 Nonfiction
By Alyssalicious BRONZE
Whittier, California
Alyssalicious BRONZE, Whittier, California
3 articles 13 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are one.&quot;<br /> ~JK Rowling

#9456 Nonfiction
IfLifeGivesYouLemons PLATINUM, Sacramento, California
37 articles 0 photos 22 comments

Favorite Quote:
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down &#039;happy&#039;. They told me I didn&#039;t understand the assignment. I told them they didn&#039;t understand life

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By Anonymous
#9458 Nonfiction
GreeneMachine SILVER, Defiance, Ohio
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#9459 Nonfiction
arichman40 PLATINUM, Basalt, Colorado
44 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Never judge a book by its cover&quot;

#9460 Nonfiction
By LaceyElizabeth BRONZE
Elk Grove, California
LaceyElizabeth BRONZE, Elk Grove, California
1 article 14 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot; A woman&#039;s heart should be so lost in God that a man must seek God in order to find her.&quot;