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#205741voted by our readers
18
By Anonymous

The fall I turned 18I was surrounded by cowboy bootsinstead of Birks,a life of sororitiesnot teenage drama.I observed my closestfriends reach adulthoodbefore I even had my lisence....

#205742 Poetry
By Suuper_Nxva BRONZE
Sedalia, Missouri
Suuper_Nxva BRONZE, Sedalia, Missouri
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#205743 Poetry
By amymd911 BRONZE
Metairie, Louisiana
amymd911 BRONZE, Metairie, Louisiana
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#205744 Poetry
By jessicags GOLD
San Diego, California
jessicags GOLD, San Diego, California
15 articles 8 photos 21 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." Brenda Ueland

#205745 Poetry
By Sabrina13 GOLD
Jacksonville, Florida
Sabrina13 GOLD, Jacksonville, Florida
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
*As I lay here,<br /> thinking of you.<br /> All my thoughts,<br /> Gray and Blue.<br /> I wish I could see you,<br /> I wish I could.<br /> Then maybe my life<br /> could be understood.<br /> But, still I&#039;m down<br /> and Thinking Of You.<br /> <br /> * Inside this mirror, I see myself,<br /> trapped bhind a face no lo

#205746 Poetry
Irene Martinez Ramirez BRONZE, Mequon, Wisconsin
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#205747 Poetry
JamesStory PLATINUM, Baltimore, Maryland
23 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;It&rsquo;s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.&quot; -Ernest Hemingway

#205748 Poetry
MollyRoseKenick(MK) SILVER, Nome, Alaska
9 articles 0 photos 0 comments
&#9560;Nastalzia&#9560; SILVER, Boise, Idaho
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#205750 Poetry
By TashaT BRONZE
Avondale, Arizona
TashaT BRONZE, Avondale, Arizona
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Let&#039;s random dance on the rings of Saturn.&quot;