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#1431voted by our readers
By andreabru BRONZE
Beaumont, Texas

I treated your life like a snow globe. Your heart thumped against the warm glass as I embraced your fragility in my arms, my premature child with glistening Indian-like skin fr...
andreabru BRONZE, Beaumont, Texas
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

#1432 Poetry
By antha GOLD
Hackensack, New Jersey
antha GOLD, Hackensack, New Jersey
14 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#1433 Poetry
By IreneD BRONZE
Oxford, Mississippi
IreneD BRONZE, Oxford, Mississippi
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I've worked on my weaknesses, I made them my strengths."

#1434 Poetry
By Jordi2112 PLATINUM
Gardner, Kansas
Jordi2112 PLATINUM, Gardner, Kansas
29 articles 6 photos 27 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

#1435 Poetry
By madsdaws BRONZE
Staten Island, New York
madsdaws BRONZE, Staten Island, New York
3 articles 0 photos 1 comment
#1436 Poetry
By IreneD BRONZE
Oxford, Mississippi
IreneD BRONZE, Oxford, Mississippi
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I've worked on my weaknesses, I made them my strengths."

#1437 Poetry
By Air GOLD
Frisco, Texas
Air GOLD, Frisco, Texas
14 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Doubt kills more dream then failure ever will

#1438 Poetry
mpascual31 BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#1439 Poetry
By ROY07 PLATINUM
Hyderabad, Other
ROY07 PLATINUM, Hyderabad, Other
22 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
- E.E. Cummings

#1440 Poetry
By CharlieM_13 BRONZE
Mobile, Alabama
CharlieM_13 BRONZE, Mobile, Alabama
4 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
"When I'm sometimes asked 'when will there be enough women on the supreme court?' and I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." - RBG