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I Am From
By LexyK2015 SILVER
Tucson, Arizona

I am from a cut-up nightgown and fingers in my mouth, To an iPod and headphones in my ears. I am from seeing my mother cry over the deaths of people I barely knew, From Tellet...
LexyK2015 SILVER, Tucson, Arizona
5 articles 6 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;I will not be a goody bag at your pity party&quot; ~ Rachel Cohn<br /> &ldquo;On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that&#039;s not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.&rdquo; ~ Gabrielle Zevin

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Not Hungry
By KTawesomoGIRL GOLD
Renton, Washington
KTawesomoGIRL GOLD, Renton, Washington
15 articles 9 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It&#039;s not what you do, but how you do it.&quot; -Jude (Across the Universe)

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Believe
By Bladesofgrass BRONZE
Greenwich, New York
Bladesofgrass BRONZE, Greenwich, New York
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Do or do not. There is try. -Yoda

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Autumn Spell
By qwerty42 GOLD
Waverly, Kentucky
qwerty42 GOLD, Waverly, Kentucky
13 articles 10 photos 28 comments

Favorite Quote:
Do or do not, there is no try. -Yoda

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Beauty and Me
By Shaunyboy94 GOLD
Novato, California
Shaunyboy94 GOLD, Novato, California
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.&quot;--Carl Sandburg<br /> <br /> &quot;If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you&#039;re drunk.&quot;--Conan O&#039; Brien

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Living to Die
By Drizzle29 SILVER
Norwalk, Connecticut
Drizzle29 SILVER, Norwalk, Connecticut
6 articles 0 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galanti&egrave;re

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Life and Death
By Shaunyboy94 GOLD
Novato, California
Shaunyboy94 GOLD, Novato, California
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.&quot;--Carl Sandburg<br /> <br /> &quot;If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you&#039;re drunk.&quot;--Conan O&#039; Brien

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accidental
By Bella PLATINUM
Belleville, Illinois
Bella PLATINUM, Belleville, Illinois
20 articles 3 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;loving someone who doesn&#039;t love you is like worshiping the behind, of a wooden statue, of a hungry devil.&quot; -author unknown

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Lovers.
By Pitiful_Anonymous PLATINUM
New Cumberland, West Virginia
Pitiful_Anonymous PLATINUM, New Cumberland, West Virginia
22 articles 0 photos 75 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;and all you f***ers go beep beep beep in cheap,plastic cars. If It&#039;s to dumb to see or say you&#039;ll still sing it, and I&#039;ll just cue the applause&quot; - Marilyn Manson

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Ode to my Steak
By Shaunyboy94 GOLD
Novato, California
Shaunyboy94 GOLD, Novato, California
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.&quot;--Carl Sandburg<br /> <br /> &quot;If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you&#039;re drunk.&quot;--Conan O&#039; Brien

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