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			<title>Beauty</title>
			<description>&quot;Inner beauty&quot;, they saybut that's bullshitAnd I knowBecause your beauty isn'thiddenor secretor buried inside of youlike some private thought that the world can't seeIt may come from that sweet sweet geniusthat resides in your heart&amp;nbsp;but let me assure you,&amp;nbsp;it is sketched all over your facei..</description>
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			<title>Hair</title>
			<description>You uncompromising congress, will you not make up your mind?Are you curly, straight or wavy, messy, greasy, flat or fried?You won't come when I call you, you decline to sit and stay,You gobble up my combs and clips, you never go away.You're a hazardous appendage and won't hesitat..</description>
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			<title>Fear</title>
			<description>Fear</description>
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			<title>Identity</title>
			<description>Identity</description>
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			<title>first</title>
			<description>The rays of light seemed suddenly to break through the barrier of glass and stream through the library window onto Thomas' back, turning to drops of sweat that adhered the linen of his shirt to the skin on his back. His fingers began to grow sticky against the smooth, dry pages of his book; his stoc..</description>
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			<title>age</title>
			<description>The girl in the mirrorand the girl in my brainare so much olderthan the girl they contain</description>
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			<title>To Know Anything</title>
			<description>First non-wizard rock song I've ever written. Still gotta work out the chords, but I'm kind of proud of myself :P</description>
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			<title>You vs. Them</title>
			<description>When I think of youI smileThere's no heartbreak&amp;nbsp;Or silents sobs&amp;nbsp;As I cry myself to sleepThere's no reason I can't have youAnd nothing is complicatedYou're sweet and right&amp;nbsp;And everything can be so simpleWhen I think of the othersAnd all the barriers that lie between them and me&amp;nbsp;It..</description>
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			<title>Waiting</title>
			<description>No boys are flocking at my doorAnd even if they wereThey'd only want one thingBut you are rightAnd I worship the words that come out of your mouthEven though you're all wrong for meYou don't want anything from meBecause you found those things long agoBut I want so much from youAnd you can't give itA..</description>
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			<title>Cowardly Confessions</title>
			<description>In twenty yearsWhen all of us Have gone and went our wayThe existence of yourMemory of meIs dependant on todayMole calculations and poem analysescan be filed and stored awayIf&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;procrastinateOn saying thisA graver fee's&amp;nbsp;at stakeI shake with fearI quake and st..</description>
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			<title>Jingles</title>
			<description>LOVE, Love, loveHATE, Hate, hateTry to rememberTry to forgetempty colored marker wordsconstruction paper correspondenceforbidden facebook friend requestsand a pink slip of abodanceM&amp;amp;Ms and cheddar corn puffspad me from the truththat a certain Tracy Chapman songmakes me cry ..</description>
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			<title>untitled</title>
			<description>For months I've been begging GodTo let me feel somethingThat other girls doAnd it all came so fastAnd vanished just as quicklyI don't know who I am anymorebecause the part of me that loves you has taken over every distinction that existed beforeI hope that this is all a flukeI'm ..</description>
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			<title>Coma</title>
			<description>I am numbNumb with the toxins society is plugging into my bodyNumbed by my passionless existenceGone are the days in which I could feel to my heartAnd even though I'm presentLife is passing me byI try to scare myself everydayBut nothing can prepare me for the dive it will takeTo plun..</description>
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			<title>Spite</title>
			<description>I told myself that I'd never find love'Cause men are from Mars and women from aboveBut I guess I did what I always doI threw caution to the wind&amp;nbsp;when I fell for youIt doesn't matter what the grown-ups sayFor you I'd give my dreams, put my life in disarrayYou may not always treat me ..</description>
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			<title>Little girl, Little girl</title>
			<description>When I was just a little girlAnd I hopped and skipped and jumped and twirledI didn&amp;rsquo;t have a place in this worldBut you held meAnd you told me That when I grew up and my bloom unfurledAnd when times had changed so that little girlsHad a place in this worldWell, I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t ..</description>
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			<title>Perfect People</title>
			<description>I see these perfect peopleWith their happy masksAnd they never let anyone insideAnd they can't seem to get things right either&amp;nbsp;It's like forgetting the lyrics to a song you wroteRemembering the smile you had before your heart brokeAnd with all my imperfections and screwups, I love..</description>
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			<title>Rain</title>
			<description>You're walking on the sidewalk in your suburban neighborhood. Even though it's the middle of the afternoon, the sky is a dark hue of grey. Black-bottomed clouds cover the entire sky. And then you pause, as if in tune with Jupiter, for that moment before the sky breaks and the rain comes pouring down..</description>
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			<title>Driving Away</title>
			<description>Your angry girl music is fluttering through the dirty, musty interior of the old blue pick-up truck and you've got your foot pressed down a little too hard on the gas pedal. Your face is scrunched up and your voice is getting scratchy from screaming at the top of your lungs to the music. You know th..</description>
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			<title>Free from this place</title>
			<description>The second the clock tollsI'm eighteenI'll be so long goneYou won't have seem me leaveI'll be far from this placeAnd even if I tell you You won't find meI'll be in a better placeSomewhere people love meI'll never be tied down againI'll be free forevermoreI just want a place tha..</description>
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			<title>They</title>
			<description>They'll laugh at youThey'll beat you downThey'll reject youThey'll tell you to give upThey'll ignore youThey'll insult youThey'll give you crapTheyll hurt youThey'll decimate everythingThey'll make it hardThey'll do everything they can To keep you from achieving your dreamsBu..</description>
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			<title>[untitled]</title>
			<description>&amp;quot;YOU GOD-DAMN&amp;nbsp;CHILD!&amp;nbsp;What did you do this time!? You're such a - &amp;quot;&amp;quot;What? Hinderence to your existence, pain in your a*s, failure at life, lazy idiot - &amp;quot;&amp;quot;WHA - &amp;quot;&amp;quot;f**k-off who's gonna end up working at Wal-Mart?&amp;quot;&amp;quot;You just shut the f**k up ..</description>
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			<title>It took me so long to realize...</title>
			<description>I meant everything mean somethingWhen to him it all meant nothingAnd I thought that he was something greatI was convinced I'd found the perfect mateI worshipped him behind his backI thought a friend would be the right trackAnd then that day, that fateful dayHe told me that with us it'd..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 6</title>
			<description>The antique green-painted wooden door creaked as Samantha Mencker opened it to give way to the antique attic bedroom that lay before her. There were eight walls in the shape of an octagon, made of stacked wood planks. In the middle of the room was a white iron bed, clothed in..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 5</title>
			<description>Magnificentclarifescent: Adam?Adam, where&amp;rsquo;d you go?&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;That can only mean one thing&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; Claire thought. And with that, she was an exploding bottle of shaken-up coke. She grabbed her bag, ran through the garage, quickly jumping onto her bike, and ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 4</title>
			<description>Sarah pushed open the wooden door to reveal a conference-type room. She scanned the people sitting in the folding chairs around the table. A woman assumed to be the counselor appeared it to be in her mid-thirties and sat at the end of the table. She looked at the adolescents ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 3</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;We&amp;rsquo;re here!&amp;rdquo; Samantha&amp;rsquo;s mom whispered in feigned excitement as they passed a sign that read &amp;ldquo;welcome to Cross Forks, Pennsylvania.&amp;rdquo;They had been driving in her mom&amp;rsquo;s 1995 Chevy for what seemed like forever: Sam had gone through three..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 2</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;G&amp;rsquo;Night,&amp;nbsp; Sarah&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Where&amp;rsquo;re&amp;nbsp; you going?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Out&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Whatever, I&amp;rsquo;ll see you in the morning&amp;rdquo;But she didn&amp;rsquo;t. That was the last time she ever saw Anthony Wickham. That night, he got into a car with a..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 1</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Who wants cold pizza and Dr. Pepper for lunch?&amp;rdquo; Samantha Mencker&amp;rsquo;s mom&amp;rsquo;s voice echoed through the apartment. Four teenagers emotionally stood up from their positions on the carpeted floor of Sam&amp;rsquo;s bedroom. &amp;ldquo;NO!&amp;rdquo; cried Claire Wuthers,..</description>
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			<title>Prologue</title>
			<description>It all started with a memo in the Cross Forks county tribune. &amp;ldquo;Attention book-savvy kids! Bored with television-filled Sunday afternoons? Come to the first meeting of the Cross Forks Teen book club at the public library on Sunday from 3-5 pm. Apparently, most of the k..</description>
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			<title>Book Club</title>
			<description>A group of four friends start a book club as ten-year-olds. Now five years older, the teenagers struggle find their own ways towards adulthood, sharing their experiences to the book club. </description>
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			<title>You could never like me</title>
			<description>         I like you so much it hurtsBut I can&amp;rsquo;t tell you because I knowThat you don&amp;rsquo;t like me backI can imagine how perfect it&amp;rsquo;d beIf only you'd see that I'm right in front of youAnd no matter how much I will it to be otherwiseYou're just a..</description>
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			<title>Visiting the James K. Polk house </title>
			<description> My mom and I were driving through the vacant deserted streets of downtown Columbia, TN when we spotted marker that read &amp;ldquo;Historical James K. Polk residence&amp;rdquo;. Hidden beneath a dense layer of trees and shrubs was a barely visible green painted-brick house. ..</description>
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			<title>The Shoes</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;I found&amp;nbsp;my shoes&amp;nbsp;the summer after fifth grade at a garage sale and decided to buy them on a whim, probably because they were only five bucks. Somehow I ended up wearing them nearly to death. There&amp;rsquo;s nothing particularly remarkable about them. The white canvas lining is deteri..</description>
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			<title>Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up</title>
			<description>Briar Rose awoke to a sweet taste of lips on her own. When her eyes fluttered open, she saw a familiar face an inch above hers. She felt confused and disoriented as she tried to piece chunks of memory together to formulate a hypothesis as to when she had ever gone to sleep and ..</description>
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			<title>I'm Not Fearless</title>
			<description>I'm not fearlessReally it's trueThe one thing I'm scared ofI think it's youThe look in your eyeWhen you get all enragedIs enough to make me cringeAnd&amp;nbsp; wish you were encagedI'm not fearlessThough I wish I wasI wish I was fearlessAnd it's honestly becauseI'm just waiting..</description>
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			<title>[untitled]</title>
			<description>I'm vulnerableI'm breaking apartThey've done it to meThey've stolen my heartI can't take it any moreI have to tell someoneI've held it all insideFor far too longSomeone needs to tell themThat it's not okayTo throw me down the stairsI feel so betrayedI'm not a god-damn child..</description>
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			<title>To Fall</title>
			<description>A poem about love inspired by a taboo card :)</description>
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			<title>Summer</title>
			<description>You run through the grassThe blades licking and scratching the balls of your feetWater from a hose flies through the airAnd comes tumbling down over your headYour bathing suit sticks to your stomach The adults are on the back porchWith their cold beers and white sundressesRock music ra..</description>
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			<title>LEAVE ME ALONE!</title>
			<description>Sorry... this poem is just kind of a childish piece of crap that I wrote because I'm just so pissed at this one dude</description>
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			<title>Ch. 1</title>
			<description>&amp;quot;We're here!&amp;quot; my mom whispered in feigned excitement as we passed a sign that read &amp;quot;Welcome to Cross Forks, Pennsylvania&amp;quot;We had&amp;nbsp; been driving in my mom's 1995 chevy for five days, stopping in various motels in locations across the country: on one occasion, we were even for..</description>
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			<title>This Old House</title>
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			<title>Chapter 3</title>
			<description>I walked off the bus and started making my way towards the front door, just a hundred yards in front of me. I walked slowly, making sure with each step that the rubber soles of my doc martens were firmly pressed to the concrete sidewalk before taking another step.I was engulfed buy upperclassmen.</description>
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			<title>Chapter 2</title>
			<description> The bus had arrived in the parking lot of Wuthers High School, and I could no longer think about my long, complicated relationship with religion. Wuthers High School was beautiful.&amp;nbsp; I had seen it before. I knew that it was at least three stories tall and I knew it..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 1</title>
			<description>          I looked at the alarm clock next to my bed.&amp;lsquo;2:43 a.m.&amp;rsquo; it read. Damnit.In exactly 6 hours 17 minutes, I would start my first day at Robert S. Wuthers High School, and I hadn&amp;rsquo;t gotten an ounce of sleep all n..</description>
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			<title>A Day in the Life of a Freak</title>
			<description>The angle I'm going for is &quot;satirical memoir of the teenage experience&quot; but if you have something else in mind, feel free to share. </description>
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			<title>Where I'm From</title>
			<description>     I&amp;rsquo;m from the black and white photographs on our wallsOf Renaissance women and heroes&amp;rsquo; fallsFrom recurring dreams of Harvard YardFrom four different copies of Beedle the Bard&amp;nbsp;I&amp;rsquo;m from Ann&amp;rsquo;s adopted daughterFrom the brave soldie..</description>
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			<title>Society</title>
			<description>The hero always falls in loveWith the damsel in distressThe hero's the one who wears the capeAnd the damsel wears the dressI keep hoping that things will changeThat society's wheel will turn&amp;nbsp;But now matter how much time passesPeople never seem to learn</description>
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			<title>Is that so much to ask?</title>
			<description>I'm afraid; afraid to tell you how I feelI'm dropping you hints, but you don't think they're realI'm scared and frightened of what I need to sayI'm afraid that by speaking, I'll scare you awayIn one moment, I'm hopeful that you love me backBut in the next, you go distant, and I start back ..</description>
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			<title>Floating</title>
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			<title>Her Existence</title>
			<description>She sat alone at her seat on the busShe stared out the rain-pattered windowThe piece of glass that seperated her from the blistering rain was nonexistentThe rain was seeping into her bloodwashing her out&amp;nbsp; of existence.The tears trapped inside of her Washed out the cruel voices t..</description>
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