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A Kiss In The Snow
Image Source: Pexels- gya den One morning in early February, Lydia sat in a bright blue chair waiting for her flight to New York at the Amelia Earhart International Airport. Her flight was delayed for at least the next two hours because of a snowstorm that was grounding all flights for now. She was sending…
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Love, With Miles Between Us
Little did I know I would fall in love with a person from the opposite side of the planet. Long-distance love isn’t just about the cinematic tropes we see on our devices, always sun-lit and reunions and smiles. More often, it is late-night calls where one is just waking up to start the day, and…
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Things I Understand Now
I didn’t learn the most important things in moments when everything was going well. I learned them when things felt unclear, when people left, and when I had too much time alone with my thoughts. Those quiet, uncomfortable moments changed me in ways success never could. One thing I understand now is that not everyone…
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Sour
sour, the sight of your cries, heart wrenching but my sweet words to coux you ain’t enough, your doe-like eyes tear up my heart, like fine tea reaping in the vines, your beauty catches every eye, your lies are like a tickle on my heart, as your sweet lips part memories of the scars you…
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Birthdays & Winter Ramblings
Birthdays are only celebrated once a year, and my birthday is on January 22nd, which means there is a slight chance each year that it might snow on or near my birthday. When I was a kid, I loved it when it snowed on my birthday because that meant school would be closed or we…
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The Age Of Social Media
I have such a love/hate relationship with all social media. While I can appreciate that it led my sister to find me and gave us the ability to form a strong friendship, or how the high school friends can so easily stay connected, and how the long-distance family can stay in touch a bit easier…
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Note By The Window
Two letters under the covers. I recover as I stare at the innocent self-satisfied writings under my bed, I count inside my head three to five years totally wasted, two years left, i tilt my head, looking at my reflection ahead, you heard he was never gonna be enough yet you stayed, you heard that…
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Sealed Heart
Behind these doors My heart is sealed, My thoughts are seen My love locked I’m the only one who knows Secrets like these are never known Behind closed doors My tears flow like rivers, Tears meant to be seen I cry for hearts unknown I cry for what I’ve lost Yet they don’t cry back.…
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My First Christmas!
There are moments in life that arrive quietly, yet change us forever. My first Christmas is one of those moments—bright, unexpected, and filled with a kind of warmth I didn’t know I needed. Growing up, Christmas was always something that belonged to other people. I saw it through windows, through stories, through the excitement of…
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A Kiss At Midnight
It was New Year’s Eve, and Charlotte was excited to attend her best friend, Lila’s, New Year’s Eve Party this year because she was hoping that Levi, the guy she had been crushing on for the past two years, would finally kiss her. Charlotte had his name written all over the notebooks she used at…
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Predicted Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions
With the start of the new year, generally comes the start of a new you. Every year, billions of people see in this time of year by setting themselves a resolution for the new year. Whether all those people stick to the new goals they have made is a different matter. Yet they start them…
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Sequel
I told you my pain, and you reenacted it perfectly It is as if I wrote you a script on how to tear me apart You sat and listened day after day, word after word, and you sat and memorized it Like you were memorizing a script As if my pain was a movie, you…
