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March 23, 2021
By samanthawine GOLD, Beverly Hills, California
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“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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I am broken. I am battered. I am bruised.

I am down. I am damaged. I am done.

Why is the war worth fighting for if there is nothing to be won?

© Jeremy B., Austin, TX

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piperw811 PLATINUM said...
on Apr. 8 2021 at 9:26 pm
piperw811 PLATINUM, Pittsford, New York
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I love this so much. It's so whole and complete but entirely broken at the same time.