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			<title>If Only</title>
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			<title>Nothing</title>
			<description>I am fighting what I cannot seeWithin the deepest depths inside of me</description>
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			<title>Ignorance Befalls Them</title>
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			<title>Anticipation</title>
			<description>My entire existenceI have been waiting for youDreaming of youPraying for youYour absence is feltIn the fading rays of sunsetUnder the celestial light of every starIn the foam of the seaAs the waves kiss my feetUntil our paths converge into oneYou remain on my mindYou have too much passion to settle ..</description>
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			<title>Blame</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I awoke to lips pressed against my neck and arms wrapped around my waist, his breath humid upon my bare skin. His hand began descending lower as his kisses grew heavy with fervidity. I opened my eyes to see only darkness; the sun had not yet risen. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I..</description>
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			<title>What Is and What Could Never Be</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Billy never left.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; He was ever present in my dreams, in my thoughts. He would hold me and talk to me. I saw his smile and heard his laugh. I would gaze into his eyes, as richly green as the forest of trees we would stroll through together. I would sudd..</description>
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			<title>Sacrifice</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;I'm afraid, more than anything else, that I have sacrificed my heart for my mind.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;You shouldn't say that. You've chosen a noble life, a selfless career. You will save many lives.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;Yeah, I suppose you're right.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;..</description>
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			<title>Words and Actions</title>
			<description>I am foolish and temperamentalYou are kind and demureWhen my faith wearies You never failYou love me with such passionSuch selfless and unending love.I am not dependable, nor faithfulBut you love me anywayI am never late for workHave never missed a deadlineBut with you, you are always waitingYou get..</description>
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			<title>Compassion</title>
			<description>Compassion - deep awareness of the suffering of another. An ill-fated weakness dictating self-control. A reason of self-destruct, a causality of abusive endurance. Can you ever escape it's binding grasp? There is no escape...</description>
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			<title>In a Perfect World...</title>
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			<title>What Is and What Will Never Be</title>
			<description>We are all born into circumstances beyond our control...</description>
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			<title>Choices</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;We either get married, or I'm getting rid of it.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;What? How could you say such a thing?&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;You heard me. I'm not doing this alone.&quot; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; His eyes fell to his feet as he digested my words.&quot;This happens all t..</description>
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			<title>Accountability Absent - Cont.</title>
			<description>*****&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The coldness of the building could be felt even through the plastic chairs lined against the wall of the crowded room. No one seemed to speak here. Every pair of eyes blatantly dodged the others, the quietness louder than any noise. An i..</description>
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			<title>Accountability Absent</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I'd never fathomed it would happen to me. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I saw them nightly, faces I did not recognize. The same scenes replayed in my dreams, the same unknown, ominous order of events I could never decipher. Evidence, but no memory; I was haunted day and night. I ..</description>
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			<title>Unsinkable</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The stars winked from above, glistening and twinkling upon the darkness of the night. Each flowing wave sparkled beneath their celestial light. She tentatively leaned against the rail, her crimson curls caressed by the chilling breeze of the Pacific ocean air. The lights of ..</description>
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			<title>Moment</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;Ey, Miss,&quot; a male's voice called from behind me. Instinctively, I turned around. A tall, fair-skinned man was walking towards me, his short, blonde hair reflecting the light from the street lamp above. &quot;Are you attempting to catch a taxi?&quot; he inquired through smirking lips ..</description>
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			<title>Emotion</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It doesn't happen often, but when it does, the emotion is near impossible to conceal. She hugged her knees tightly against her chest and watched the drops of rain gently glide down the outside of the window, silently hoping that the rain was heavy enough to prevent anyone fr..</description>
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			<title>Sixth Sense</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I've always known I was different. From the time I was a little girl, I have been hypersensitive to the world around me, hypersensitive to the energy and aura unconsciously radiating from others. I could feel what they felt. I could look at their face, their body language, e..</description>
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			<title>Young Adult*</title>
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			<title>Young Adult</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I was always an excitable gal. I could find amusement in the simplest things. I never encountered a struggle being happy, yet the constant positivity of my sunny disposition could often leave life quite redundant and bland. On occasion, I'd encounter something that would lig..</description>
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			<title>Spring</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I learned an invaluable lesson at the young, blossoming age of only 17 that the only person you can fully trust is the one staring back at you in the mirror. It was a painful lesson to learn, a lesson I wish I didn't have to learn the hard way as I had. I think about that na..</description>
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			<title>Elephant in the Room</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;Oh my, I guess I had better leave as well,&quot; I spoke as my two Fijian and South African friends began to prepare for a smoke in their living room. I arose from their familiar apartment couch, politely declining the usual invitation to join them. America proved to be a large ..</description>
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			<title>New Order</title>
			<description>&quot;You are privileged, Son,&quot; the boisterously proud Gerald Gregory declared. &quot;There is no sense in wasting your time worrying about that worthless, working class filth.&quot; Gerald nearly spat his words as he tapped his knuckles on the thick glass separating him and his son from the narrow, underground pa..</description>
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			<title>Seeing</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A gust of wind greeted the pair as he slid the balcony door open for her. She closed her eyes and softly smiled as she stepped outside, visibly savoring the smell of salty air and the sound of untamed waves kissing the South Carolina coast. He felt the sudden urge to hold he..</description>
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			<title>Integrity</title>
			<description>She never imagined she would find herself here. Not in her physical location, of course, for she worked at a quite pleasant doctor's office where she spent every weekend and holiday of her youthful life answering constantly ringing phones and scheduling endless appointments for the physically ailed;..</description>
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			<title>Regrets</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&quot;I don't regret a thing,&quot; Lana said, laughing vicariously as she patted her voluptuous strawberry curls and batted her fake eyelashes at her reflection in the mirror. &quot;Men are like shoes, really. The taller and prettier they are the more we absolutely&amp;nbsp;must&amp;nbsp;have&amp;nbsp;the..</description>
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			<title>Sunflower</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The first breaths of spring air caress her downcast face as we wordlessly watch the familiar river flowing below us. Her bronze and lightly brazen gold locks sway softly in the cool breeze beside me. One glance at her and I knew she was missing him, yet I couldn't help but a..</description>
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			<title>Selfless</title>
			<description>Few things make my heart happier than seeing someone who has truly found it. By &quot;it&quot; I'm referring to the kind of unmistakable, unselfish, heart-filling love that every person longs for from the innermost part of their very being. Hearing those words escape my lips would most likely surprise a lot o..</description>
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			<title>I</title>
			<description>We agreed to get married so early because we had full confidence that as long as we kept God first, we would be provided for. Despite what the world would tell us about how we weren't ready or how we wouldn't make it, we had such childlike faith that God would always take care of us. People would te..</description>
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			<title>Blessings of a Broken Heart</title>
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			<title>Emerald Blue</title>
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			<title>Await</title>
			<description>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Coffee in hand, I climbed onto the old, heavily pillowed window seat. A large window encircled where I sat, tantalizing my eyes with a spacious view of the snow-covered countryside. I gazed into the blinding whiteness of the snow, suddenly feeling colder. An involuntary shiv..</description>
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			<title>21</title>
			<description>21. So many annotations tag along to this number. The majority of you probably thought of the young and fun carefree age of 21 years, or thought of alcohol since 21 is the purposefully high drinking age in the United States. But, 21 for me holds no such excitement. 21 is the prime age of life as con..</description>
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			<title>Words</title>
			<description>Words are such curious things. They can bring the utmost joy, the bottommost sorrow, and can even be used to describe things we don't have the slightest idea of understanding. The feelings we lust for in life wouldn't seem near as pleasurable without words available to describe them. It's like us hu..</description>
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			<title>Up In Flames</title>
			<description>	My heart suddenly faltered as my eyes caught sight of an obscured envelope tucked inside the old dresser drawer. &amp;nbsp;My fingers trembled as I dug to retrieve it from the adolescent chaos surrounding it. &amp;nbsp;I didn't have to open the familiar envelope to know what was inside. &amp;nbsp;I stared at i..</description>
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			<title>Glitter</title>
			<description>It's easy to be enamored with things that glitter and sparkle, yet when the glitter fades, would you still feel the same?</description>
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			<title>Perfect</title>
			<description>After the human genome was successfully cracked, the idea of creating the &quot;perfect&quot; person was pursued. </description>
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			<title>Secret</title>
			<description>Blair has a secret</description>
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			<title>Hole</title>
			<description>	&quot;Don't even begin to try to understand me. Shoot, I even gave up tryin' to understand myself.&quot;	&quot;I have this hole, and I don't think it can ever be filled. It's this empty space in me, this black hole of.. of ice or somethin' that just numbs everything around it until I can't feel anything at all. B..</description>
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			<title>Rebel</title>
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			<title>Rare</title>
			<description>	I finally caught sight of her, tip-toeing through the rain, a white fur coat draped across her soft, golden kissed curls. She clumsily climbed into my truck, wiping the rivers of mascara from her cheeks. I stared wordlessly at the beautiful mess occupying my once-empty passenger seat. She looked up..</description>
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			<title>Initiation</title>
			<description>	Taz rowdily burst through the door of apartment 911, his muscular, chiseled arms overflowing with loudly clandestine brown paper sacks. &quot;Ey mates,&quot; he shouted for his friends' attention as he unloaded numerous bottles from the sacks. &quot;Who's ready to get messy tonight?&quot; Taz flashed his signature dev..</description>
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			<title>Something Foreign</title>
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			<title>Something Foreign</title>
			<description>	A light knock on the apartment door aroused him from his comfortable seat. On most occasions, he would've ignored the spontaneous visitor and continued playing his video game, yet something about the gentle nature of the sound summoned him. Looking through the peephole, he beheld a strikingly attra..</description>
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			<title>Dark</title>
			<description>Here I was again, finding myself spiraling from the edge of the blackness that too frequently consumes me. The fighting spirit once bottled inside of me has hopelessly been depleted. I'm numb. And numbness is easier than pain.&amp;nbsp;Yet, what is real pain? Is it purely physical, since I can still hur..</description>
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			<title>Sun</title>
			<description>The sun delighted the skyGlittering upon the surfThe moment held a melodyI've never before heardSand caressed my crevicesBare against my skinThe sea's foamy fingersTempting me to come in</description>
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			<title>Bright Eyes</title>
			<description>	&amp;ldquo;Can we talk?&amp;rdquo; he nearly yelled over the raucously blaring music. I tentatively nodded as he grabbed my handand led me away from the crowded dance floor, making an escape to the vacant, taciturn stairway. I tugged my hand out of hissubconsciously. The outward showing of affection ha..</description>
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			<title>Theif</title>
			<description>He stole her heart like a thief,Left her broken and kept a piece.He filled her head with dreams,With words he didn't mean</description>
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			<title>She Never Sings</title>
			<description>If you asked me what perfection was, I would say her name. An angel beneath human skin, a blessing to every soul she may delightfully encounter. Her sheer and natural beauty is enough to captivate any man's eye. Her smile illuminates my world. Her voice is the music I yearn to hear. She is my every ..</description>
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			<title>Fate</title>
			<description>Taking my hand, he lead me into the ochreous, achromatizing sunset-&amp;nbsp;the day's last bursts of energy silently&amp;nbsp;dying into peaceful night. As&amp;nbsp;he guided my steps&amp;nbsp;onto the slanted shingles, the final fading rays caught his amiable features, sending my heart into an explosion of emotio..</description>
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