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#7181voted by our readers
By spicozzi BRONZE
Morristown, New Jersey

Every year in elementary school, the teachers used to have us draw self-portraits. In kindergarten I drew myself with a brown crayon, but with each passing year the crayons I picke...
spicozzi BRONZE, Morristown, New Jersey
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#7182 Opinion
necrophilikat PLATINUM, Greshamville, Georgia
21 articles 0 photos 12 comments
#7184 Opinion
N.R.Anon PLATINUM, Ayer, Massachusetts
21 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers." (Charles Bukowski, So You Want to be a Writer)

dahuja2 BRONZE, Solon, Ohio
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#7186 Opinion
AmyPackham15 SILVER, Lancaster, Other
5 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
\'You should believe, even when life is giving you every reason not to\'

Alden_Sykora GOLD, Long Island, New York
19 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others" -Christopher Columbus

#7188 Opinion
By CarolineF. DIAMOND
Yanceyville, North Carolina
CarolineF. DIAMOND, Yanceyville, North Carolina
54 articles 17 photos 26 comments

Favorite Quote:
\"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever par

piperwilliams25 BRONZE, Nairobi, Other
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#7190 Opinion
RainWashed PLATINUM, Park City, Utah
46 articles 1 photo 86 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Repeat the good and the bad. Do it all again. And pile on the years."