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		<description>The original writings of author Marie A. Maya </description>
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			<title>I Used To Make My Parents Proud</title>
			<description>I make my mom cry and I disappoint my dad.I used to talk to friends but now I talk to the wallsand I can't find my head, I think I've misplaced italong with the motivation I had.I checked under my bedbut all I found were ripped up morals and cigarette butts.&amp;nbsp;I used to go to school.Now I sleep u..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1444269/</link>
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			<title>Your Mom Called About How I Was Doing And The Only Thing I Could Say Was Your Name</title>
			<description>It's black and bitter at 4:15 when sheets become good friends&amp;nbsp;and your pillow grows cold from the lack of sunlight.But winter already set itself between bone and fleshwhen weeks felt like months and months felt like suicideand you couldn't leave the bed without sobbing.Headlights were starting ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1432769/</link>
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			<title>My Honest Poem</title>
			<description>I was the last to fall asleep out of the girls at my cousin's party.Sometimes I take things too personally.Sometimes I don't care that he's gone.&amp;nbsp;Sometimes I drag a blade over my thighs&amp;nbsp;just so I can taste what it's like to breathe without feeling suffocated.I spend my days sleeping instea..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1424795/</link>
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			<description>The constellations we built that night shattered&amp;nbsp;when they heard your heart cave in from Ohio.&amp;nbsp;It's been six months and yet they still lay in my back yardconfused on why the glue wore away when the back read &quot;Always&quot;.Over time they're crawled their way beneath my bedand spend their time tr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1424791/</link>
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			<title>Nights Are Hard When Your Bed Is Empty And Your Heart Is Still Miles Away</title>
			<description>*tumblr inspired*</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1423753/</link>
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			<title>I Kept Trying But No One Saw My Screams</title>
			<description>tumblr inspired</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1385287/</link>
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			<title>Suicide Note In Mid Summer</title>
			<description>I guess one day, like they all say,&amp;nbsp;I'll be able to get dig myself out of my mattress&amp;nbsp;without wanting to cry out in pain&amp;nbsp;from the weight of the world on my rib cageand my limps won't feel so numbfrom the nights my bedroom filled with mountains of snow.Maybe I'll be able to stay when m..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1385283/</link>
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			<title>Untitled </title>
			<description>Creative narrative I wrote from my English class</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1334607/</link>
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			<title>Reminders To The Little Boy Who I Will Love More Than The Sun</title>
			<description>*tumblr inspired*</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1302144/</link>
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			<title>I Never Really Cared For The Taste Of Menthol Or The Way He Slid His Hand Up My Thigh</title>
			<description>To the boy who fucked me over last summer. Thank you.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1302131/</link>
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			<title>Life Lesson #1: Taught By A Girl Who Can't Seem To Keep Her Priorities In Line</title>
			<description>To my friend, Riley</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1283794/</link>
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			<title>I Asked A Man Who I Could Talk To About The Fire In My Body And He Pointed Up</title>
			<description>I'm actually Buddhist but I thought it'd be fun to write about this</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1275743/</link>
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			<title>Another S****y Apology To Someone I've Said Sorry To More Than I Should</title>
			<description>To my best friend, Assen</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1260149/</link>
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			<title>I Take The Long Way Home To Avoid The Tree You Carved Our Names Into</title>
			<description>You filled your stomach with a pint of vodka the night we fought until you broke into tears,yelling until your throat was raw that you yearned for me, needed me,that I was the air in your lungs.I told you to pack up our 4 years and to leave,that this was the last time my mouth will spi..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1259041/</link>
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			<title>4 Years Of A Mouth That Lied</title>
			<description>Memory poem for my English class. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1255660/</link>
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			<title>Fragment #4</title>
			<description>I apologize for not coming with an instruction manual or a cheat sheet. I'm not someone you want to be in love with. I'll get inside your veins and eat away at your bones. I'll set your insides on fire and stab your heart countless times. I'll cut myself to watch you bleed. I'll shove you close enou..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1252881/</link>
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			<title>A Bottle Of Whiskey To Cover Up The Bruises </title>
			<description>To my cousin, Devin</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1252417/</link>
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			<title>Nobody Allowed Near The Labs While She's In There</title>
			<description>Therapists pump happiness through your veinsif you show one ounce of pain in your eyes.Parents take your door awaywhen all you want is to keep the demons out.Smilles are easier to fake rather thanopening up like a book to someone who's just curious.Bleach scrubbed rooms and whte li..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1251907/</link>
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			<title>I Can't Remember A Time When I Wanted To Be Alive </title>
			<description>I was born with a flaw in my chemistryand it's slowly eating me alive.  I've been sent to rooms with a person who unzips me,empting me of all addiction, beliefs, knowledge,only to refill me with theories of how to correct myself. Doctors inject happiness into my veinsand feed me capsules..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1249220/</link>
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			<title>Just Remember That Even Sidewalks Have Cracks</title>
			<description>To my friend, Morgan</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1246730/</link>
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			<title>First Breath Since Day One</title>
			<description>It's been 2 years since I've felt the warmth radiate off your skin.Since I've heard your humming dance off the walls, finding its way to me.Since I've tasted your lips on mine.Since the day I watched you crash your car into the treethe same way you crashed into my heart freshman year.Tod..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1246342/</link>
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			<title>Shoes Fit All If You Just Believe </title>
			<description>Step into my shoes and you'll know thatshort time makes me worryand thunderstorms at midnight make my heart quake until it's cracking my rib cage.My thoughts taunt me,my past haunts meand my future is blurry.My dad left a dent in the center of my heartreminding me that no man is tr..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1246332/</link>
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			<title>You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine</title>
			<description>To my friend, Bri </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1246194/</link>
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			<title>7:07 pm </title>
			<description>* TRIGGER WARNING *</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1243336/</link>
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			<title>Stay Strong</title>
			<description>Lovely, don't cry,put the knife away.It's not your fault,everything will be okay.Honey, don't be hurtbut the cruel words they say.They don't understandthat they made you this way.Darling, wipe your tears,it's not time for this.Chase away your nightmaresbefore they suck you ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1243316/</link>
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			<title>Fragment #3</title>
			<description>It pains me to see you cry. To see you lay in that position; your knees pressed up to your chest and your head resting against them with your shaking hands covering your red puffy eyes. Your back rising and falling as you take in short gulps of breath. It's gotten to you again. The depression. It's ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1243309/</link>
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			<title>Fragment #2</title>
			<description>Talk about cheesy</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242764/</link>
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			<title>Fragment #1</title>
			<description>It's just a short story about a boy. 

This is an old writing. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242406/</link>
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			<title>Something You Shouldn't Experience </title>
			<description>I was just a sad girl with a foolish mind.You were just a boy who wanter anything morethan to feel the touch of another.And just like that,just like the houses last summer in the tornado,you were gone.</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242389/</link>
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			<title>Peace For The One's That Have Suffered</title>
			<description>Tell me about the lines that dance down your ribs and across your sunken stomachAnd the ones that climb up your wrist to your inner elbow like a ladder. Tell me about the year your drunken father went to jail for leaving you black and blueAnd the night you wrote a farewell to..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242387/</link>
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			<title>9 Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean</title>
			<description>This is what depression is. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242385/</link>
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			<title>I Came From A Tin Box</title>
			<description>This was a poem I did for an English assignment this year. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242382/</link>
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			<title>Fate Does This Thing</title>
			<description>I was in love. </description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242374/</link>
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			<title>If I Don't Wake Up From The Mango In My System, Here's My Goodbye </title>
			<description>I read something once that said the ones with the white and red lines that cover their bodies were angels. That they were sent down to seewhat life was like on the ground.But many couldn't bare the pain the earth was pouring into themand would take their lives to go back to peace. ..</description>
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			<link>http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/racecarheart/1242267/</link>
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