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By anonymous_content BRONZE
Cadiz, Kentucky

The past couple weeks have wrecked me, it's 3:30 in the morning and I'm up thinking of all the bad things I've done. I get on social media and I see a video talking about god, sa...
anonymous_content BRONZE, Cadiz, Kentucky
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Favorite Quote:
people are like sandpaper they hurt you over and over but in the end you turn out shiny and new and they end up worthless.


#419572 Poetry
KatieLHiggs BRONZE, Powell, Tennessee
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#419573 Poetry
By PaulWong BRONZE
Arcadia, California
PaulWong BRONZE, Arcadia, California
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By Anonymous
#419575 Poetry
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#419576 Poetry
By EcoGelane SILVER
Portland, Indiana
EcoGelane SILVER, Portland, Indiana
5 articles 0 photos 2 comments
#419577 Poetry
By juicyfinelli BRONZE
Bethesda, Maryland
juicyfinelli BRONZE, Bethesda, Maryland
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#419578 Poetry
Kairi_McEwin GOLD, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
19 articles 0 photos 17 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.”

#419579 Poetry
By ConnorCarson0925 BRONZE
West Olive, Michigan
ConnorCarson0925 BRONZE, West Olive, Michigan
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