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I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Trapped
Wish
Live
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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
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Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.
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Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.
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I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
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Helloooo. Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.
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I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
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But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.
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You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
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...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.
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Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
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...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
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Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
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What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.
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She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
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