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January 27, 2011
By easy-as-123-ABC SILVER, Palo Alto, California
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If inner beauty was outer beauty, I would be beautiful both ways.
If the quality of my words was like gold, I would be rich.
If my music was power, I could go far.

But somehow, the world doesn’t want to see that.
They judge you based on a pre-determined checklist: beauty, money, power.

I stopped caring though.
It all was so stupid that I decided to break free.

And now I have one thing that outshines everything else:
Freedom.

© Crystal E., Charlotte, NC

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