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February 4, 2013
By EtherealLibretto GOLD, Z, New Hampshire
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Favorite Quote:
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde

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Get married- have kids
Red brick walls loom over me
Society's rules.

© Jessica C., Corvallis, OR

The author's comments:
I wrote this one day when I was feeling very trapped, like the world was expecting me to live my life a certain way, and I couldn't live how I wanted to live.
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