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By saltskin SILVER
Fairbanks, Alaska

My past has been locked tight into dirty, leatherette boxes. It has been concealed under the lyart cover of the lumpy, spring mattress in the stuffy back room of my woeful house. S...
saltskin SILVER, Fairbanks, Alaska
8 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely


12ipark BRONZE,
4 articles 3 photos 1 comment
Nonfiction
By Anonymous
Nonfiction
xRawrIsMex SILVER, Bemidji, Minnesota
5 articles 3 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
When Two Hearts Race, Both Win.<br /> ... And I&#039;m seeing more clearly through the fog that there is life after a broken heart.

Nonfiction
By Jessi-ca SILVER
Arvada, Colorado
Jessi-ca SILVER, Arvada, Colorado
7 articles 1 photo 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us to get.

Nonfiction
By MhsAnonymous SILVER
Morristown, New Jersey
MhsAnonymous SILVER, Morristown, New Jersey
7 articles 0 photos 15 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life is like a dream. Its perfect until you wake up into reality.

Nonfiction
By Becca987 BRONZE
San Diego, California
Becca987 BRONZE, San Diego, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
hyoeunwoo SILVER, Seoul, Other
9 articles 2 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Your biggest competitor is always yourself.

Nonfiction
By PencilPusher76 PLATINUM
Sidney, Nebraska
PencilPusher76 PLATINUM, Sidney, Nebraska
23 articles 0 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
Life isn&#039;t about how many times you fall down......But about the times you pick yourself up once you fall....

ShannonVictoria BRONZE, Dutch Haror, Alaska
4 articles 0 photos 31 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Love takes time. Don&#039;t keep asking random people to go out with you. If you wait, God will send the right person to you. But if you don&#039;t, then you may never find the one you&#039;re destend to be with.&quot; -Shannon McConnell