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#33021voted by our readers
By Katie_Potatie PLATINUM
Leavenworth, Kansas

In fifteen years, I’ll be 30 years old. I’ll be a successful journalist with a well paying job and coworkers that love me. I’ll go to work Monday through Friday from 9 to 5, just l...
Katie_Potatie PLATINUM, Leavenworth, Kansas
36 articles 1 photo 30 comments

Favorite Quote:
There are no regrets in my life; because there is no time for mistakes. -(ME) Katie quote


#33022 Nonfiction
By Waistband GOLD
Hudson Falls, New York
Waistband GOLD, Hudson Falls, New York
15 articles 0 photos 63 comments

Favorite Quote:
"What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong." Robin Williams

#33023 Nonfiction
ahheredia GOLD, Mexico City, Other
10 articles 0 photos 8 comments

Favorite Quote:
Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson

#33024 Nonfiction
By Isabelle Jeng SILVER
Warren, New Jersey
Isabelle Jeng SILVER, Warren, New Jersey
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#33025 Nonfiction
By irenerose PLATINUM
Lawton, Oklahoma
irenerose PLATINUM, Lawton, Oklahoma
47 articles 1 photo 24 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr.

#33026 Nonfiction
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By nswamy13 BRONZE
Shelton, Connecticut
nswamy13 BRONZE, Shelton, Connecticut
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33027 Nonfiction
By serendipitous615 PLATINUM
Frederick, Maryland
serendipitous615 PLATINUM, Frederick, Maryland
32 articles 0 photos 36 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Do you want to know the secret of self esteem? Here it is: If you want confidence, then understand how much you matter to God. If God loves you, who cares what anybody else thinks."

#33028 Nonfiction
Skinniminnie SILVER, Roanoke, Indiana
5 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
we read to know were not alone

#33029 Nonfiction
CubeMaSTeRCOMMANDEROFTRUMPET BRONZE, Leroy, Michigan
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
It's not the mountain that slows you down it the grain of sand in your shoe

#33030 Nonfiction
By vbrown1204 GOLD
Fort Myers, Florida
vbrown1204 GOLD, Fort Myers, Florida
19 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
"everything was beautiful and nothing hurt" - kurt vonnegut jr