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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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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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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
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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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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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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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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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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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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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