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25, and still, stuck in a town I always said I’d leave. Is this all there is for me? Follow in the footsteps of my parents and just… Be? Is this all I’m supposed to amount to? A simple breath upon this earth? A west wind so faint, no one feels its passing? No songs, no…
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I sit alone in a restaurant, it feels weird after a year or so of never sitting alone. Nothing’s wrong, I’m just really hungry. So I sit alone, and look through my phone until I stumble upon a memory I never thought I’d ever see out of that proverbial rug I stuffed it under two…
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It has been seventeen years since you succumbed to bone cancer, and my heart still breaks every time I think about it. It’s been seventeen years and I haven’t gotten closure yet. I still haven’t recovered form the loss of your light. To most people, you were the caretaker of my mother and her sisters,…
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I lived in this house, I was born in the hospital across the street from it. I learned to walk in this house, learned to talk, learned to read, learned to live. A little old lady with silver hair and a no-nonsense attitude lived here, with a tall, kind old man who liked to walk…
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The drumbeat sounds like bullets fired from a gun held by someone who should never have it. It sounds like disappointment and regret, and all your childhood fears of never being perfect.They pierce through you, and you feel the blood flow, but not from the bullet wounds in your head. The stream of red flows down your…
