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By paigeswifka GOLD
Goose Creek, South Carolina

physical affection is my least favorite language. because who actually loves being in a tangle of blankets and bony elbows, someone's knee always pressed into your back....
paigeswifka GOLD, Goose Creek, South Carolina
12 articles 0 photos 14 comments

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By None0 BRONZE
Bellevue, Washington
None0 BRONZE, Bellevue, Washington
2 articles 0 photos 96 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Believe in the ideal, not the idol." - Serra

hemingways_daughter DIAMOND, London, Other
53 articles 0 photos 22 comments

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&#039;Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.&#039;<br /> ― Virginia Woolf, &#039;A Room of One&#039;s Own&#039;

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By GraphicWriter DIAMOND
Yuba City, California
GraphicWriter DIAMOND, Yuba City, California
63 articles 10 photos 89 comments
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By laxgirl06 ELITE
Cheshire, Connecticut
laxgirl06 ELITE, Cheshire, Connecticut
113 articles 0 photos 21 comments
hayhaywhaley GOLD, Houston, Texas
14 articles 0 photos 16 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;How could any step away from you ever be in the right direction?&quot;

Cassie1435 GOLD, Skokie, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 23 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Doctor, our insanity is not that we see people that aren&#039;t there. It&#039;s that we ignore the ones who are.&quot; <br /> Andrea Gibson

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By liveloud70x7 SILVER
Private, California
liveloud70x7 SILVER, Private, California
6 articles 0 photos 34 comments

Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.&rdquo; --john green<br /> <br /> &quot;self-consciousness is the enemy of all creativity&quot; --ray bradbury<br /> <br /> &quot;We suffer each other to have each other a while.&quot; -Li-Young Lee

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By RunnergirlAlli SILVER
Tyndall AFB, Florida
RunnergirlAlli SILVER, Tyndall AFB, Florida
9 articles 1 photo 14 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.&quot; -- Ernest Hemingway &quot;If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don&#039;t write.&quot; -- Anais Nin

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By Yami_H BRONZE
Scottsdale, Arizona
Yami_H BRONZE, Scottsdale, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 5 comments