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Everything seems to be working. Except me. I'm broken.

Julie Anne Peters

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Julie Anne Peters
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 16
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Engineer
Writer
Jamestown
New York
Seems
Everything
Except
Broken
Working

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No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to my rescue, or stood up for me.
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As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.
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