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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
Except
Broken
Working
Seems
Everything

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Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.
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I had to fight so hard not to cry.
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I just want the pain to end.
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...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.
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But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in letting the secret blacken me.
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The sad truth is, they should never trust me.
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His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.
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They didn't guarantee you'd come out a whole person.
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But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.
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I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.
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Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.
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You still have, I looked at my watch, twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation. One side of his lip cricked up. I found you. I'll take my chances.
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I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.
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Secrets. I can't take then with me. If I do, when I go, when I arrive at my final destination, I'll be . . . impure.
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