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By kmg34 BRONZE
Longwood, Florida

Childhood memories are like The half-eaten Oreo at The bottom of the cookie jar. I reach blindly, fingers Flailing in the dark abyss As they brush the edge Of my spoils, sen...
kmg34 BRONZE, Longwood, Florida
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.” – Vladimir Nabokov


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By wdickinson GOLD
Fredericksburg, Virginia
wdickinson GOLD, Fredericksburg, Virginia
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. <br /> -Oscar Wilde

Poetry
By wdickinson GOLD
Fredericksburg, Virginia
wdickinson GOLD, Fredericksburg, Virginia
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. <br /> -Oscar Wilde

Poetry
By wdickinson GOLD
Fredericksburg, Virginia
wdickinson GOLD, Fredericksburg, Virginia
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. <br /> -Oscar Wilde

Poetry
By wdickinson GOLD
Fredericksburg, Virginia
wdickinson GOLD, Fredericksburg, Virginia
10 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. <br /> -Oscar Wilde

Poetry
By InkDance PLATINUM
Sylvania, Ohio
InkDance PLATINUM, Sylvania, Ohio
31 articles 0 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
The only difference between highschoolers and preschoolers is that preschoolers get naptime.

momentofweakness BRONZE, Ottawa, Other
3 articles 0 photos 8 comments
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By L.T.A SILVER
Hammond, Indiana
L.T.A SILVER, Hammond, Indiana
7 articles 1 photo 75 comments

Favorite Quote:
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler

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By sweet_silent_surenity GOLD
Puyallup, Washington
sweet_silent_surenity GOLD, Puyallup, Washington
16 articles 0 photos 52 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.&quot; -Victor Hugo-

Poetry
By sweet_silent_surenity GOLD
Puyallup, Washington
sweet_silent_surenity GOLD, Puyallup, Washington
16 articles 0 photos 52 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved- loved for ourselves or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.&quot; -Victor Hugo-