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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Promise
Stand
Beauty
Cliff
Back
Shout
Nothing
Echo
Heart
Cliffs
Always
Echoes
Ugly

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