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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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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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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 all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
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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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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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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'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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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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