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#47911voted by our readers
Addicted
By sarahdee GOLD
Swansea, Illinois

My life revolves around addictions. They control my every action; constantly whispering in my ear. I’m addicted to any drug that will get me high enough not to care. I’m a...
sarahdee GOLD, Swansea, Illinois
11 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your life you had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you were on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around, neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something absolute--life or truth or beauty--of being ruled by it in place of the man-made rules that had been discarded. You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good."

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#47912 Poetry
No Title
By thumpR8221 GOLD
Moriarty, New Mexico
thumpR8221 GOLD, Moriarty, New Mexico
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. <br /> Thomas Jefferson

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#47913 Poetry
Hardships of Love
By Anonymous
#47914 Poetry
LONESTAR
By tesswards32 PLATINUM
Perry Hall, Maryland
tesswards32 PLATINUM, Perry Hall, Maryland
36 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;And it&#039;s funny how it&#039;s the little things in life that mean the most, not where you live, what you drive or the price tag on your clothes. There&#039;s no dollar sign on a piece of mind.&quot; - Zac Brown Band

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#47915 Poetry
A Brilliant New World
By ssf837 BRONZE
Chevy Chase, Maryland
ssf837 BRONZE, Chevy Chase, Maryland
3 articles 1 photo 0 comments
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#47916 Poetry
drifted away-pulled apart
By virginialeem BRONZE
Chi, Illinois
virginialeem BRONZE, Chi, Illinois
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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#47917 Poetry
Ode to what was
By Anonymous
#47918 Poetry
Rainkissed leaves on a Moonlit Path
By HeartOfInkx33 GOLD
Lowell, Massachusetts
HeartOfInkx33 GOLD, Lowell, Massachusetts
11 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;In the end, it will be okay; if it&#039;s not okay, then it&#039;s not the end!&quot;

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#47919 Poetry
anorexia
By Anonymous
#47920 Poetry
The Colors Of Our Friendship
By SimplyRachel PLATINUM
Charlotte, North Carolina
SimplyRachel PLATINUM, Charlotte, North Carolina
48 articles 6 photos 40 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that&#039;s why we call it the present.&quot;<br /> ~Unknown<br /> &quot;Things change, friends leave, and life doesn&#039;t stop for anybody.&quot;<br /> ~Stepgen Chbosky

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