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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Maine
Andrew Gibson
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You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
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I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
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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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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.
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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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