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By chocolateharp SILVER
Plaistow, New Hampshire

I had a wicker basket with a dainty little handle, and lining made of checkered cloth the color of my cheeks. I filled my wicker basket up with secrets and with treasures;...
chocolateharp SILVER, Plaistow, New Hampshire
8 articles 0 photos 21 comments

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"Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost." - Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)


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By BlueInk94 PLATINUM
Valley Park, Missouri
BlueInk94 PLATINUM, Valley Park, Missouri
30 articles 0 photos 75 comments
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By jennam8 GOLD
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
jennam8 GOLD, Quakertown, Pennsylvania
12 articles 27 photos 56 comments
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By lafufu SILVER
Butler, New Jersey
lafufu SILVER, Butler, New Jersey
6 articles 0 photos 5 comments

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"I live in a world of fantasy so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want; I want what I see and that is all okay by me."

AveragePsycopath BRONZE, Montreal, Other
4 articles 1 photo 2 comments
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By Grania PLATINUM
Portland, Maine
Grania PLATINUM, Portland, Maine
33 articles 0 photos 79 comments
futurejournalist SILVER, Richland, Georgia
8 articles 4 photos 4 comments
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By irenerose PLATINUM
Lawton, Oklahoma
irenerose PLATINUM, Lawton, Oklahoma
47 articles 1 photo 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr.

xXOneWishXx BRONZE, Sewell, New Jersey
3 articles 0 photos 21 comments

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Most people wish for Money, Success, Fame, but my One and Only wish was for you to be happy, even if it means i'm not.

OneBarProductions PLATINUM, Union, Missouri
33 articles 1 photo 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"You think it is the living that will have the ultimate judgement over you, but it's the dead that will have no claim over your soul"