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By sophiejoon BRONZE
San Marcos, California

How could I have known? That the first day I traced the nickel keys, The first time I ran my hands over the wooden bell, But sure enough, Forty-eight hours and a box of reeds...
sophiejoon BRONZE, San Marcos, California
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TheGolfer PLATINUM, Nashotah, Wisconsin
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#47933 Poetry
By LizaStone GOLD
Fiskdale, Massachusetts
LizaStone GOLD, Fiskdale, Massachusetts
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#47934 Poetry
By evaniles BRONZE
Royal Oak, Michigan
evaniles BRONZE, Royal Oak, Michigan
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#47935 Poetry
By jillianpaddock06 BRONZE
Wentzville, Missouri
jillianpaddock06 BRONZE, Wentzville, Missouri
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#47936 Poetry
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#47937 Poetry
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#47938 Poetry
By sarahdee GOLD
Swansea, Illinois
sarahdee GOLD, Swansea, Illinois
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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."

#47939 Poetry
By thumpR8221 GOLD
Moriarty, New Mexico
thumpR8221 GOLD, Moriarty, New Mexico
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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

#47940 Poetry
By Anonymous