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#28051voted by our readers
By Hannaleiigh PLATINUM
Kittery Point, Maine

My head, it pounds. My knees, they are weak. I’ve stepped outside of the cave you’ve built. There is no sunlight here, but there is air. There is a vast emptiness I never knew...
Hannaleiigh PLATINUM, Kittery Point, Maine
49 articles 0 photos 7 comments

#28052 Nonfiction
ebefiscute BRONZE, Locust Grove, Georgia
1 article 7 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.&rdquo;<br /> <br /> ~Helen Keller

#28053 Nonfiction
sydneeharris16 DIAMOND, Auburn, Maine
76 articles 4 photos 32 comments

Favorite Quote:
we the willing, lead by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. we have done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

#28054 Nonfiction
By bjmcrank GOLD
Dayton, Ohio
bjmcrank GOLD, Dayton, Ohio
11 articles 10 photos 14 comments
#28055 Nonfiction
By Maure BRONZE
Redwood City, California
Maure BRONZE, Redwood City, California
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#28056 Nonfiction
By Authorintraining88 GOLD
Somewhere:p, Massachusetts
Authorintraining88 GOLD, Somewhere:p, Massachusetts
11 articles 1 photo 25 comments

Favorite Quote:
You are the universe experiencing itself

#28057 Nonfiction
DarkDeliverer BRONZE, Victoria, Texas
3 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? ~James Thurber

#28058 Nonfiction
By elawrence123 BRONZE
New York, New York
elawrence123 BRONZE, New York, New York
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#28059 Nonfiction
By Anonymous
#28060 Nonfiction
By Jordyne2003 BRONZE
Fulshear, Texas
Jordyne2003 BRONZE, Fulshear, Texas
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” - Mary Shelley