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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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Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Mines
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Body

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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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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 good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.
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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
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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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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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I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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