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Hope.
"Somewhere on the edge of the bell curve is the boy for you"
I hope he doesn't fall off the graph. -
Podium.
I wrote this a year and a half ago: a speech hastily scrawled. A joint effort between Tessa, Steph and I. I spoke to families and essentially, to my friends. It's not well written. But it was honest and I suppose honesty is never so eloquent.
So this is what I said:
Mr. P, Mr. D, Mr. B, teachers, family, friends and the graduating class of 2006.
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Raspberry Flavoured Residue.
When they told me you died, I didn't feel a thing. Like someone had removed a sticker of in the shape of you and all that's left is the sticky adhesive, tracing out your rough outline. It took time to let it sink in.
But I did feel something. I felt it as I kneeled over your grave, touching its lurid green tombstones and day-old flowers. I ( Read more... ) -
Sophia
Five o'clock and a fire escape symphony
Spilling out across the road and the square
And the sky's the same as your own do ya think of me?
Do the parks and trees and the leaves reach you there?
After the rain, in the lonely hours he haunts me,
Calling out again and again
Sophia, Sophia, I'm burning, I'm burning
It's a fire, a fire I cannot put out
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Integrity
Every inch of me shall perish.
Every inch, but one.
An inch
It is small
And it is fragile
And it is the only thing in the world worth having.
- valerie
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Writer's Block: (like juggling chainsaws)
Knitting.
My skills at crochet is laughable. Knitting would be awesome to learn. Think of all the wool to warm up against those really cold aircon in the classroom.
Bake the perfect crusty bread.
The kind that smells like sunshine.
Thinking of domestic goodness sends a heretic shiver down my spine. -
Volcanic Eruptions.
I have zits the size of peas on either side of my nose, giving the impression that I have a grand total of four nostrils.
Lovely. -
My Funny Ethics Prof.
"This course will not make you a better person" -
Missing.
You vanished. Where the hell have you been?
Now what is the socially acceptable method of telling you this...
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