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I think the people who go through more can end up stronger in the long run. They have insight in to what a lot of people don’t have and a better understanding—they can be more open-minded. - Ella's mother

Jessica Sorensen

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Jessica Sorensen
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 2
Novelist
Thinking
Open
People
Understanding
Running
Mother
Ends
Ella
Better
Minded
Long
Insight
Think
Stronger

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I try not to laugh at the fact that even when she’s drunk, she has a hard time saying it. “Where do you want me to take you?” She drops her head back against my chest. “You can just keep carrying me. It’s very relaxing.
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Pretend all you want, pretty girl. You and I know that deep down you’re secretly glad to be pressed up to my body.
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No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.
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No, but I've never been one for wise ideas, he says. I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.
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It's because you aren't thinking very clearly tonight. I know. Being Drunk is weird. Oh my god. I love you so much. Especially when you say stuff like that. Like what? Nothing. Never mind. Although I'm dying to know why your shoe is green.
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But sometimes stuff happens and we find ourselves lost, and suddenly we're standing in a place we don't recognize and can't remember walking-or falling-there, and we're unsure how to get back or if we even want to.
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Kayden: Yeah, but you're a girl. Me: Oh, I forgot for a sec. Thanx for reminding me. Kayden: I haven't forgotten at all. In fact, it's all I think about all the time. Me: That I'm a girl?? Kayden: That ur a girl I very badly want to touch right now
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Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here. I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. I don't want to be awayfrom you for that long.
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For the rest of my life? His voice softens. Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?
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Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away
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I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.
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It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.
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I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside. I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.
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No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in.
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I thought I’d saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.
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I've missed you, Ella May
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That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet. You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.
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I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
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You think that just because you left, it would change how I feel? Well, guess what? You're wrong. I can't help how I feel. I'm still in-
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It’s a moment I’ll remember forever, because it belongs to me.
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