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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
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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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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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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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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 are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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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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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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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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We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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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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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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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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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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We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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