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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Maine
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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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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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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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Yes, I like girls Yes, I like boys I like boys who like boys I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't I like girls who don't call themselves girls Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.
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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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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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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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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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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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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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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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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
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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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...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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