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By GzusFreak10 GOLD
Staten Island, New York

How did it happen? It kind of crept up on me. Like a thief. Silently. Unexpectedly. Subconsciously. He was so much older. He was a junior, I was still in eighth grade. My best fr...
GzusFreak10 GOLD, Staten Island, New York
17 articles 0 photos 102 comments

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By ThePov SILVER
Middleton, Massachusetts
ThePov SILVER, Middleton, Massachusetts
6 articles 0 photos 0 comments
kread18 DIAMOND, Berkeley, California
65 articles 0 photos 33 comments
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By rsg9993 BRONZE
Los Altos, California
rsg9993 BRONZE, Los Altos, California
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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By 143lovebaby BRONZE
Peoria, Arizona
143lovebaby BRONZE, Peoria, Arizona
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Live like your in a day dream lifes yoiur fantsy, but act as if youll die tomorrow.

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By JamieStarr GOLD
Sevierville, Tennessee
JamieStarr GOLD, Sevierville, Tennessee
11 articles 0 photos 54 comments

Favorite Quote:
o! thats why i love you. :) i love you.

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kread18 DIAMOND, Berkeley, California
65 articles 0 photos 33 comments
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By PenguinFeet GOLD
Bellevue, Washington
PenguinFeet GOLD, Bellevue, Washington
19 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?" - Dulcie, in Libba Bray's Going Bovine

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Bballgrrl SILVER, Loveland, Ohio
6 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
Success is not measured by what you accomplished but the oppostion you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.&nbsp;<br /> -Orison Swett Marden

Thesilentraven PLATINUM, Mableton, Georgia
40 articles 2 photos 1632 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;il piu nell&#039; uno,&quot; (according to Emerson, an Italian expression for beauty)<br /> <br /> &quot;Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality&quot; ~Emily Dickinson<br /> <br /> &quot;The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain&quot; <br /> ~Kahlil Gibran