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By lara starr BRONZE
Middleburgh, New York

"lips, red as the rose, hair black as ebony, skin white as snow" being beautiful a felony? the black of night, with an old hags cackle a scream of fright and a blast of wi...
lara starr BRONZE, Middleburgh, New York
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Abirdwithoutwings PLATINUM, Medford, Oregon
31 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

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By FaithSnyder16 ELITE
Metamora, Ohio
FaithSnyder16 ELITE, Metamora, Ohio
180 articles 8 photos 97 comments

Favorite Quote:
Write what you know, and dream of. - Jane Austen<br /> People throw rocks at things that shine - Taylor Swift<br /> Just Keep Swimming! Just Keep Swimming! - Ellen DeGengeres as Dory

ghummanonfire GOLD, Lahore, Other
10 articles 1 photo 10 comments

Favorite Quote:
A coward dies a million times. A courageous man only dies once.

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By estherhoran__ GOLD
Bell Gardens, California
estherhoran__ GOLD, Bell Gardens, California
10 articles 0 photos 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God&#039;s handwriting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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By laceandcoffee PLATINUM
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
laceandcoffee PLATINUM, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
21 articles 0 photos 13 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;We make up horrors to help us escape from the real ones.&quot;- Stephen King<br /> &quot;But I don&#039;t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry. I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.&quot;- Aldous Huxley

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ClaireM. ELITE, Albany, New York
109 articles 14 photos 33 comments
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By radrach BRONZE
Blacklick, Ohio
radrach BRONZE, Blacklick, Ohio
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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By james-12122 GOLD
Middleburgh, New York
james-12122 GOLD, Middleburgh, New York
12 articles 0 photos 0 comments