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September 25, 2013
By CawolAnnie149 SILVER, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"Where there is love, there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi

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Most people in high school
want to fit into the crowd,
but our goal is to get out of it,
while changing it
and ourselves in the process.
In the end, it didn’t matter
if I ate this morning.
It would’ve been
the smallest meal today.
So I went to the flagpole and prayed
with the other students.
We lifted up our hearts
and opened the hearts of others,
just by standing out from the crowd.

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
I went to SeeYouAtThePole (SYATP) on September 25th 2013. If you don't know what it is, ask someone. This was the first year and I went and stayed, even though I've been a Christian for about three years. I almost cried in the first five minutes I was there. It was that moving.
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