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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.

Andrea Gibson

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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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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 would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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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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Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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