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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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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Calais
Maine
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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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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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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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 wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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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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So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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