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I wouldn’t exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though…I mean when she was talking and she got excited about something, her mouth sort of went in about fifty directions, her lips and all. That killed me. And she never really closed it all the way, her mouth. It was always just a little bit open, especially when she got in her golf stance, or when she was reading a book. She was always reading, and she read very good books. She read a lot of poetry and all. She was the only one…

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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Perhaps your body
so riddled with scars
is not so thick skinned
and numbed to it all;

but rather,
soft hearted
and warm,

for you have proved
time and time again
that this body

has the ability
to heal itself.

Michelle K., Healed Wounds and 3 AM Apologies.
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today i lived the moment
i have been praying for 
i looked at you 
and saw a memory
with skin
i will not romanticize you 
into a future 
i see you 
and know that there is nothing left
in you 
for me

pardis a. (via pardisa)

Do not teach your daughters to be ‘pretty.’
Do not entomb her in a pretty pink tower
and insist that only the degree of her physical appeal
may set her free.
Teach her to fight her way out,
to consume books and spit knowledge
to lesser boys who insist she is just beautiful
and nothing more.
Teach her to love her body
not to manipulate and put a price tag on herself
as a defined worth
she shall be immeasurable
she shall be more than this.
Do not let her break herself down
when the boy in kindergarden hits her
because he likes her.
What are you really teaching her?
Pain and love are not synonymous
neither are pretty and perfection.
Teach her to be kind
to be harsh
to be demure
to be wild
to be sensitive
to be thick-skinned
But good god,
Do not teach your daughters to be ‘pretty.’

Michelle K., “Do Not Teach Your Daughters to Be ‘Pretty’”
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So maybe you’ll call her and you’ll tell her that you miss her and she’ll sound gentle on the phone but not in love with you anymore. She’ll say ‘we happened and we were important but you let me go, I’m sorry, but you let me go’ and that’s how you’ll know.

Your blog reminds me of all a summer vacation with lots of happiness in it. I love you!
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Love you back !

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

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