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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.
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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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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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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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