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Camp OOTB
By emattox SILVER
Onancock, Virginia

I stood by the bay washing prosthetics caked in marsh mud, bug spray, and sweat. As I scrubbed, heads popped in and out of the shallow water of the Chesapeake Bay, intermittently s...
emattox SILVER, Onancock, Virginia
9 articles 1 photo 28 comments

Favorite Quote:
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -Ghandi

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Thinking Inside the Box
By dysfuntellect DIAMOND
Yorktown, Virginia
dysfuntellect DIAMOND, Yorktown, Virginia
65 articles 0 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everything that you want is on the other side of fear- George Adair

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My Neighborhood
By Sefora SILVER
Brockton, Massachusetts
Sefora SILVER, Brockton, Massachusetts
9 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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The College with an Omelette Bar
By jillianmedugno SILVER
Middleton, Wisconsin
jillianmedugno SILVER, Middleton, Wisconsin
5 articles 0 photos 5 comments
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What's your favorite word?
By Viola.B. SILVER
Ashgabat, Other
Viola.B. SILVER, Ashgabat, Other
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.























Joseph Gampbell

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Beauty Catcher
By kaira SILVER
Boise, Idaho
kaira SILVER, Boise, Idaho
6 articles 12 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
To be wise, think of something stupid to say, then, don't say it. -E. Roosevelt

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A Nerd Memoir
By misty523 BRONZE
Flanders, New Jersey
misty523 BRONZE, Flanders, New Jersey
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"We read to know we are not alone" -C. S. Lewis

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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
By Anonymous
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A Dream is Finally Born
By forestcatkay12 SILVER
Colorado Springs, Colorado
forestcatkay12 SILVER, Colorado Springs, Colorado
6 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.

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Shakespeare: The Heart Surgeon
By RomanticPhilosopher SILVER
Hawley, Pennsylvania
RomanticPhilosopher SILVER, Hawley, Pennsylvania
7 articles 15 photos 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The life given to us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal"
-Unknown

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