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By AbbaDabbaDoo PLATINUM
Mountain Grove, Missouri

She is as beautiful as a Strongylodon Macrobotrys, a beauty uncommon and without fault. Her eyes light up with a radiance to match a solar eclipse when she is happy and dull like t...
AbbaDabbaDoo PLATINUM, Mountain Grove, Missouri
43 articles 6 photos 30 comments

Favorite Quote:
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. I guess we know which one you are.


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By shreydesai GOLD
Saratoga, California
shreydesai GOLD, Saratoga, California
13 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do."

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By crazy4bb SILVER
Wilmington, Delaware
crazy4bb SILVER, Wilmington, Delaware
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Aspire to inspire before you expire <3

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By Lost_In_Space BRONZE
Mt. Prospect, Illinois
Lost_In_Space BRONZE, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
3 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
-Albert Einstein

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By Literature_Darling GOLD
Warrenton, Virginia
Literature_Darling GOLD, Warrenton, Virginia
14 articles 0 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To live is the rarest thing of all. Most people exsist and that is all." ~Oscar Wilde
"I am a writer quite by accident, the way one my fall and rip a hole in their jeans." ~Blogger H. B. Sachs

Ray445 BRONZE, Havre, Montana
3 articles 2 photos 5 comments

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You were the lighting in that rain. You can still shine in the darkness- Snake-MGS 4, GOP

Sagar Amrania BRONZE, Solon, Ohio
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
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By monalisa3479 SILVER
La Canada, California
monalisa3479 SILVER, La Canada, California
5 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

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By ashley05 SILVER
Vienna, Virginia
ashley05 SILVER, Vienna, Virginia
8 articles 11 photos 0 comments
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By Prisoner24601 SILVER
New Malden, Other
Prisoner24601 SILVER, New Malden, Other
7 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honourable man." ~William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar