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- I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
- I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying.…
- The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as…
- Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you…
- So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really…
- And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games…
- As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a…
- I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if…
- When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He…
- I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't
- Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves.…
- I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do…
- I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing…
- I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine. They kept flashing…
- If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
- But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and…
- I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window…
- I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights…
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