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Growing down

April 27, 2010
By tutucute GOLD, Tucson, Arizona
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tutucute GOLD, Tucson, Arizona
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Favorite Quote:
A true friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you<br /> <br /> Our love is like the wind, you can&#039;t see it, but you can feel it. -A Walk to Remember<br /> <br /> I dance not because I love it, but because I couldn&#039;t live without it.

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Patience is a virtue
I was told
But to a five year old
It isn’t true at all
Why wait for what you can have?
A perplexing concept
I could not understand
Yet I was told to sit and wait
Smell the flowers
Enjoy ignorance
Another saying that soared overhead
And so I waited
And waited
Then I began to notice
Things flying by
And all too soon
My patience grew
But ignorance diminished
And I grew not up
But down

© Paula B., Katy, TX

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