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March 21, 2021
By samanthawine GOLD, Beverly Hills, California
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“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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As I sat there and waited for the tears to fall, I counted the tiles on the floor and the cracks in the wall. But as the numbers grew higher and my eyes remained dry, I discerned I became numb and didn't even realize. 

© Jared S., Pompton Plains, NJ

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