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By HayatC. PLATINUM
Louisville, Kentucky

Thud, Thud, Thud. My eerie footfalls, echo through the empty halls. My heart palpitates with anticipation Expecting to see someone, anyone, again As I turn the endless corne...
HayatC. PLATINUM, Louisville, Kentucky
25 articles 0 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."


wjdhbjD SILVER, None, Other
6 articles 0 photos 12 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

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By Hanban12 ELITE
Lake Worth, Florida
Hanban12 ELITE, Lake Worth, Florida
133 articles 7 photos 631 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.&quot;<br /> Henry David Thoreau<br /> <br /> &quot;I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.&quot;<br /> John Green

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By lydia.w GOLD
Myerstown, Pennsylvania
lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
11 articles 7 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was always an unusual girl.<br /> My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br /> And if I said I didn&#039;t plan for it to turn out this way I&#039;d be lying...<br /> Because I was born to be the other woman.<br /> Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br /> Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn&#039;t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

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By lydia.w GOLD
Myerstown, Pennsylvania
lydia.w GOLD, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
11 articles 7 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
I was always an unusual girl.<br /> My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...<br /> And if I said I didn&#039;t plan for it to turn out this way I&#039;d be lying...<br /> Because I was born to be the other woman.<br /> Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.<br /> Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn&#039;t even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

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By HayatC. PLATINUM
Louisville, Kentucky
HayatC. PLATINUM, Louisville, Kentucky
25 articles 0 photos 59 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.&quot;

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By Pargaran SILVER
New Glasgow, Other
Pargaran SILVER, New Glasgow, Other
6 articles 3 photos 123 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Be who you are, and say what you feel. Because those who mind don&#039;t matter, and those who matter don&#039;t mind.&quot; <br /> -Dr. Seuss

bella-nielsen GOLD, Marshall, Minnesota
13 articles 27 photos 28 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;autism isn&#039;t contagious, but a smile is and that&#039;s what im afraid of.&quot;-grumpy cat

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By staryskies GOLD
Siteki, Other
staryskies GOLD, Siteki, Other
14 articles 0 photos 27 comments
Poetry
By theSunfloweredCrow PLATINUM
Green Bay, Wisconsin
theSunfloweredCrow PLATINUM, Green Bay, Wisconsin
47 articles 0 photos 66 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Can&#039;t keep my eyes from the circling sky,<br /> Tongue-tied and twisted<br /> Just an earth-bound misfit, I&quot;<br /> ~Pink Floyd<br /> <br /> &quot;Now is blessed<br /> The rest<br /> remembered &quot; <br /> <br /> ~Jim Morrison