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Monday18 August 20143674 days and 9 hours ago

Reading is ungrateful to the words that have been written, because some of them have just flowed onto the paper effortlessly while others others have taken time and premeditation and others have been lost in the process. They made it to the page only to disappear soon after, unworthy of staying to be read. You don't know one from the othe

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Monica Ramirez

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