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

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Ugly
None
Pretty
Alibi

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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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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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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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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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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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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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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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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
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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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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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