tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10339282246087268412024-03-13T09:30:49.359-07:00Young.AdultRead. Write. Dream.Young Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-80317950926699966062014-06-25T20:32:00.001-07:002014-06-25T20:35:25.370-07:00Reality <div class="s2">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reality</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Why is it that we tell people we love them when we are drunk?</span><span class="s2"><br /></span><span class="s2">Is it our true feelings that we have been holding back and wish to share?</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or is it another reality</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just like our dreams at night in which our minds have an affair?</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kiss me sweet soul,</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While I am awake,</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While I am drunk,</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And while I sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">So that all three of my realities are in sync.</span><span class="s2"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Alexandria Rose Rizik</span></span></div>
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Young Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-70750757400037513482014-03-18T18:56:00.003-07:002014-03-19T09:51:11.276-07:00The Runner<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b>The Runner</b></div>
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If we were to run away, we would first start at the Grand
Canyon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You once told me how you wanted to go camping and I’ve never
forgotten that because you said that the same day you told me you loved me for
the first time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I mean, if we’re going to go camping, let’s at least go somewhere with a nice view.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our second destination would be California; we’d get lost in
a crowd of stars in Hollywood, walk on all sorts of beaches, visit the San
Diego Zoo, and eventually make our way up to Yosemite where we would carve our
initials into a large, beautiful oak tree that has been around longer than we
can count on all of our toes and fingers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The third place we’d run off to would be Vegas. We’d sneak
into casinos and win money. How else are we going to pay for our trip? Then
we’d find a small chapel to elope at. Virginity is a sacred thing that should
be saved for marriage and I want to make love to you every night until death do
us part.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d go skiing in the bitter cold winters of Colorado.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d snap a photo of ourselves in front of South Dakota’s
famous mountain, Mount Rushmore.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d go to a rodeo in Texas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d take a photo of ourselves next to the Gateway Arch in
St. Louis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d eat peaches in Georgia.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d visit Washington D.C. and see our nation’s capital for
the first time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d party with Snooki at the Jersey Shore. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d pour maple syrup over everything we eat in Vermont.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’d chow down on some lobster in Maine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For our final destination we’d go to New York; we would visit
the Statue of Liberty, go to the exact location in Times Square where a nurse
and sailor’s first kiss became a famous photo, we would take a stroll in
Central Park, and lastly, we would visit the World Trade Center, where too many
American citizens lost their lives and too many firemen died trying to save
them. It’s sad to say that a tragic day like that is what brought us together
as a country…no matter what political party we supported. <o:p></o:p></div>
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-<span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";">Alexandria
Rizik <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012<o:p></o:p></div>
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pub by your house.” While waiting at the pub, your flame walks in—wearing a
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Last Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I sat there. Two
vodka and tonics later, he walked in…wearing a tuxedo. I felt my eyebrows
furrow with confusion. He greeted me first with his eyes then approached me. I
could feel my body temperature increasing with nerves. We hugged. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I’m feeling
a tad underdressed,” I clenched my skirt and laughed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I’m
supposed to be getting married today, but,” he scratched his head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “But what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “But,” his
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I caught
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He laughed
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Only you
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I smiled and
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Let me get
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The
bartender handed us our drinks a moment later. We clinked our glasses together
and drank. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “To be
honest, I wasn’t going to come today,” he admitted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Come on,
Aly. Let’s be real with each other. Some people aren’t capable of being just
friends.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I still
love you,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I looked up,
now really at a loss for words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I still
love you too, Mikey.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Why did you
want to see me today?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I looked at
him. I looked at the ceiling. I looked at Ed, the bartender. I looked at him
again. I chugged my drink, until there wasn’t a drop left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Do you
remember that night you and I went to Misha Harrington’s seventeenth birthday
party? We got super drunk and woke up the next day in her parents bed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Mikey
laughed with a look of sadness as if he was recalling it all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Yes. How
could I forget?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Do you
remember what you said to me when you woke up?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He looked at
me. He looked up at the ceiling. He looked at Ed, the bartender. He looked at
me again. He chugged his drink, until there wasn’t a drop left. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “You
remember,” I said as he searched for more distractions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Yeah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Say it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Say what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “What you
said to me that morning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> His tongue
traced his lips full circle. He looked down and cleared his throat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Can I have
another whiskey sour?” he asked Ed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Say it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Alright,”
he cleared his throat again. “I said I hoped that one day I would be able to
wake up to you every morning until we were old and senile.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Yeah. What
else?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He gave me a
look. I shot him one back. Ed handed him his drink. He chugged it down before
proceeding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “And I’m not
talking out of a drunk teenage guy’s mouth. I love you Aly Lou.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I smiled
with satisfaction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “What is
this all about? What is the point of all this?” he asked sounding somewhat
aggravated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I closed the
distance between us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I still
want to grow old and senile with you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I kissed him
before he could answer. When I pulled back his eyes were still closed. He
looked confused. Scared. Vulnerable. His eyes opened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “And for the
record, I would never leave you for a priest.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He laughed
and shook his head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “It’s just
not that easy, Aly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “If it was
easy, it wouldn’t be worth it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> His phone interrupted
the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I’m sorry,
hold on.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He walked
away to answer. He shook his head a few times. He talked with his hands like he
did when we were sixteen. He tilted his head and quietly yelled into the phone
then hung up. He walked back over to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Who was
that?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Molly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Who’s
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He just
looked down at his phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Oh. The
cheater.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “She’s not
that bad, Aly. It’s just- she’s very insecure. Her father was an alcoholic
and-”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Of course.”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Sarcasm
hasn’t changed either.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Here we go
again.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “This is why
we could never be together.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Then why did
you come?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I took
another sip of my drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “What does
it matter? I’m here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “It matters
a lot. Did you come because you wanted to? Or because your bride-to-be left you
for chronic masturbating hypocrite?”<br />
He looked into my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Answer the
question.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I came
because you were always the person I went to when something was wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “So I’m your
shrink.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “No-”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Then what
am I?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “My first
love.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I nodded my
head, understanding now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “But not
your last.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He took in a
deep breath and mumbled an unfortunate, “No.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Take a shot
with me, Mikey,” I looked at him. Through him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I don’t
now-”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Like old
times.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Ed handed us
two shots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I chugged
mine while Mikey observed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “What?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “I have to
go, Aly.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> He stood up
and left. I drank his shot. I looked at Ed. He shrugged at me. I was just his
first love. But never his last. He was my first kiss. My first slow dance. My
first bring-home-to-dad kind of date. My first drunk adventure. My first love.
My first breakup. And he was my last drink. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #34302a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i>Love
is not a choice.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Love
is not a curse.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Love
is a fair game,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Until
the other team takes the ball.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I repeat the same
stanza in my head as if my mind is a television set and on constant rewind. I sit
in class, Mr. Jay acting as if he is actually grading when in reality I can see
the reflection of the solitaire game pulled up on his computer from the
whiteboard. I am not really the poetic type but I am being forced to write a
poem by the time the bell rings in exactly eight minutes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know what
to write. My pencil is hovering over the lined paper, hesitation reining over
any slight creative impulse my mind might encompass. As I begin to doodle
little hearts and flowers on the side of the page, I notice that the third line
from the bottom is a much darker blue than the rest. Was it an accident? As all
of these things randomly pop up on the surface of my mind, deeper inside my
head all I can think about is Brock. <i>Promise
me we’ll be friends</i> were the last five words he spoke to me. I nodded at
his question that was expressed as a statement because if I talked, the lump in
my throat that I was trying to swallow down would explode making the tears that
I was holding back pour out. That was a week ago and we haven’t talked since. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Love requests of us to be loyal to thy
partner.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Thy? That doesn’t
sound right but Shakespeare uses it a lot, doesn’t he? I wonder if Brock will
take the usual way up the stairs, the same way he’s taken all year. The way
where we run into each other right between room 105 and 107. The way where we
stop to talk and kiss and laugh for almost five minutes leaving us with barely
thirty seconds to get to our next classes. What if he takes a different way
today? He didn’t last week because he was sick- well besides the day we broke
up. Maybe he is just as upset as I am. Or maybe I am letting hope get in the
way of reality. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Love is like the ocean,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Just when you think it’s calm a big wave
will come crashing down on you. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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How cliché does
that sound? I don’t know what to say. Four minutes remain and I still have a
whole stanza left. I know what love is but I don’t know how to describe it. I
remember the first time I knew I was in love. Brock and I were at the drive-ins.
He brought a twelve pack of Budweiser that he snuck from his dad’s fridge.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Two tickets for <i>The Town</i>,” he said to the woman at the
ticket counter we pulled up to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She handed him the
tickets and we drove to screen five. It was extremely crowded. Brock put the
back seats of his truck down so there would be more room for us. He turned the station
on the radio to 109.3 just like the lady at the ticket counter told us to. We
weren’t watching the movie though. Come on, two teenagers in a drive-in theater
with a whole pack of beer to themselves? We kissed and cuddled and drank our
happiness away until we reached all of our miseries and then drank that away
too. Brock told me all about his parents’ divorce and his dad’s alcohol
problem. I listened. I listened as he slurred on about the truth that he would
never bring up to me again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We began to play
21 questions in our tipsy state of mind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You first,” he
encouraged me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Alright,” I don’t
even remember what I asked but I remember being so numb that I forgot how to
swallow down the last sip of my fourth beer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When Brock asked
me the twenty-first question <i>what has
been the happiest moment of your life so far?</i> my buzz was beginning to fade
off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I thought about
the question as much as I could for a lightweight who had just consumed four
beers. I knew it had only been five months, but I loved Brock. I really did
love him. It wasn’t a drunken decision. I had chosen to let him into my life
and being with him was when I felt the happiest so that is exactly what I told
him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I notice the first
line of my poem, <i>Love is not a choice</i>,
and quickly erase it. It is very much a choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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One minute until
the bell rings. M<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">y mind is drifting off into memories that make
realize I have known what love is all along.</span> Screw this literary “thy”, “thou”, “tis” bullshit. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Love
is a choice.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>It
comes along with this sort of feeling that is indescribable.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>It
differs for every animal.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>It
is not always blissful.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>It
is sure as hell not always fun.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>It
isn’t a roller coaster ride.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>It
isn’t an onion.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>It
isn’t an ocean.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>It
is just a part of life.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Just
like eating and drinking and breathing.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Just
like drinking alcohol, being in love is the best feeling.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i>But
the hangover sucks. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<i> </i>The week that Brock and I broke
up the drive-ins closed down. His father went to rehab. I got into college. He
had to move in with his grandmother. My dog had to be put to sleep. Even with
all of this change, time does not stop. It will never stop. <i>Life goes on and it keeps moving</i>. Brock
said that when we broke up. With life comes changes but we must move on and
leave the past where it belongs so that time does not leave us behind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alexandria Rizik </div>
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Word Count: 2306</div>
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I waited silently. Women that had many years on me stared at me as if I was some kind of Cyclops. I knew I didn’t belong but who said they belonged either? I felt my shoulders tense up and reminded them to relax. My stomach’s loud growl reminded me that I needed to eat. The last thing I had time to think about was eating. The thought of food made me sick to my stomach. Water made me regurgitate a little.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The receptionist, young but not as young as I, filed her nails occasionally taking a bite out of her lunch between each nail. I envied her. She was just an innocent bystander watching pregnant women come in and out all day long while she carried on without any responsibilities. Maybe she lived with her handsome boyfriend and they intelligently decided that they would save having a baby for marriage. Maybe she lived with her strict, Catholic parents who watched out for her. Maybe she chose to live on her own away from anyone that could get her into trouble.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A nurse dressed in scrubs walked into the waiting room and called a name that wasn’t mine. It was Amy or Allie or something like that. I stared at the floral wallpaper that covered the walls. A brown stain covered one of the flowers and I wondered how it got there. Did someone spill their coffee? Or maybe it was chocolate. The flowers reminded me of mom. Oh, mom. If she only knew the predicament I was in. The thought of the disappointment I knew she would have in me gave me a pit in my stomach. Or maybe that was a kick. I thought of flowers. Flowers were beautiful and calming. Maybe that’s why the doctor chose that as her wallpaper. They had all different meanings. For example, a red rose meant passionate love where as a pink rose meant friendship. That’s why men always gave their sweethearts red roses on Valentine’s Day. Stephen and I were somewhere in between the pink and red rose. Like a hot pink on the verge of red. But then again if we were close to red, why wasn’t he here with me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The thing about a flower is that not only are they symbolic of how you care about someone, but they can change your mood. Their sweet scents and their vibrant colors can make a dull day just that much more worth living. You can give them as a gift or name your child after them even. People wear them to proms and weddings. Flowers are unisex. Flowers are metaphors, like the one my mom used once. She said that true friendships blossom into something beautiful just like flowers. She was right. The only thing is, she left out that sometimes they could blossom into something even deeper. Things my teenage self was way too young to handle. Thinking of flowers got me to thinking about more floral metaphors like being “deflowered” and that was the last thing I wanted to think about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I gazed around the room some more. A woman, around 30 I’d say, with perfect, brown curls that bounced whenever she would look up, read a parenting magazine. At that moment, I wished she had been my mother. I wished someone could help me. I wished someone with experience could give me the right answer on what to do. But, the only people old enough to help me would be so furious that they would only give me a scolding because that’s exactly what parents do. They don’t give the answer they would give to the neighbor kid down the street or their brother’s kid. They’re harder on you because when you fail as their child they feel like they have failed as a parent. I could lie and say they are harder on you because they care and because they have put higher standards on you, but like I said, that would be a lie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I checked the time on my watch. The watch my dad had sent me from Paris. He was living a sophisticated lifestyle there with his perfect girlfriend and their perfect child. Mom said that once a cheater, always a cheater, and dad would eventually leave his new girlfriend too. Even though I couldn’t stand his girlfriend, I wished that my mother’s words weren’t true. I wished that I knew what a real relationship looked like. Were all marriages doomed from the start? I stopped myself from getting too deep into a topic that was quite a distance away. Well, hopefully. Lately there had been a lot of things that I wouldn’t have expected to go through until I could at least, I don’t know, maybe drive. I didn’t even have a license. I wasn’t even allowed to buy cigarettes or alcohol but I could make other mature decisions and I did. I was beginning to realize why sixteen year olds weren’t allowed to vote.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I assumed the doctor had been running late since my appointment had been scheduled for noon and it was already twelve thirty. I was going to miss history. Oh well. I picked up one of the magazines sitting on the coffee table in front of me. It had a picture of a sweet, soft looking infant with these big, sparkling blue eyes and dark hair. I started to imagine what my baby might look like. If it had Stephen’s eye color and my hair color it would be the cutest baby on earth. Maybe I could put it in baby modeling. That’s it! Then I wouldn’t have to drop out of school and my baby’s modeling money could pay my way through college. But how was I going to go to school if I had to take care of a baby? There was no solution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The same nurse that walked into the waiting room before, returned once again, a chart in her hand. She looked down at the paper on the chart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Demetria,” she called my name but I stayed silent and seated. She looked around the waiting room waiting for one of us to claim the name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Demetria?” she said again. She shook her head, when I once again stayed silent, and proceeded back to the exam room area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I looked around for a moment. My mind said to stay seated but my legs didn’t listen. Next thing I knew, I was standing outside the office. I started to walk with no particular destination in mind. Men in suits. Mothers running with their babies in strollers. Musicians playing their guitars and saxophones to make ends meet. The city was lively but I felt dead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I continued down the sidewalk but decided to take the bus when my legs began to feel sore. I sat down at the bus stop. According to the sign, it wouldn’t come around for another fifteen minutes. There was a man next to me. An African man dressed in a decent looking suit. He smelled of piss and rum. He held a sign that read, “Handsome, Hungry, and Homeless.” I couldn’t help but laugh a little. He turned to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Shouldn’t you be in school?” he questioned, his words slurred.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Shouldn’t you be at work?” I answered back. After I thought about my response for a moment, I realized how harsh it probably came off. But he bellowed a happy, heavy laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Touché. What’s your name?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Demetria.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh. Demetria…the goddess of fertility.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My heart fell down into my stomach. How did he know?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What?” I questioned the stranger’s accusation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Demetria. The Greek goddess.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh. Right.” I was beginning to overanalyze everything.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The silence between us was so uncomfortable it seemed obnoxiously loud.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What’s your name?” I decided to break the awkward tension.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Darian.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just nodded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So why aren’t you in school having fun with all of your friends, Demetria?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s kind of a complicated story.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, the bus won’t be here for another ten minutes.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I looked at him for a moment and then at the clinic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I have this friend, for now we’ll just call him S.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Alright so S is a boy?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes. S and I have been friends for as long as I can remember. Like, if we don’t have dates to a dance we’ll go together or if I’m sick he’ll do for my homework for me and vice versa.” The Handsome, Hungry and Homeless man would nod his head every so often as if he was thoroughly into the story.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I told him about that night. The movie. The empty house. The dark room. The first kiss.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I finished the story, The Handsome, Hungry and Homeless man just kept nodding as if I was still talking. His eyes were empty.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I wish I could go back to prison.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What?” Did he miss everything I told him? Was he even listening?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yeah. You get your three meals a day, you work out a little here and there, and if you’re lucky you get assigned a job.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were silent for a moment. A person walking by handed him a five-dollar bill.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“God bless, ya,” he thanked the person.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wondered what I was missing in history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Have you ever been to prison?” Darian interrupted my thoughts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Huh?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Have you ever been arrested and gone to prison?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, no. I haven’t.” Did I come off as the criminal type?<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You meet some quality friends in there. People you can relate to.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’ll take your word for it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The bus then pulled up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Looks like your ride is here.” I looked at the bus and then back at Darian. My new confidant. I grabbed my bag and started towards the bus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was half full. I took a seat in the second to last row. I put a headphone in one ear and let my mind drift off for a moment. I gazed out the window, as more people filed in the bus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can I sit here?” The woman who had been reading the parenting magazine in the clinic asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hi, honey. Yeah. We’ll meet you there now, okay? Love you too.” When she hung up, she gathered her two kids and began walking. I slipped my shoes on and followed once again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/336259701">5 of 5 stars</a><br />
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Right now I am crying...no, actually not crying. More like HYSTERICALLY BALLING! One of my favorite fictional characters of all time died. The love story of Hazel and Augustus was so complicatedly simple. There were no vampires or werewolves, no jealous ex-boyfriends or parents that disapproved of their relationship. No. None of that. They were battling a real life illness that people suffer through ever day. Together. Two star crossed lovers. We sometime oversee those as the REAL hardships. It's not always the forbidden lovers who are banned to be with one another because of where they came from...it's the lovers who are forbidden to be together because death separates them. <br />
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This book is beautifully written. You even get to see what the families of ill-children go through. The characters' humor kept me laughing but their suffering made me cry. That's when you know it's a good book; when it tugs at ALL of your emotions. This story makes you really appreciate life and be thankful for what you have. I love Hazel. I love Augustus. But, mostly, I love them together. I know it's just a book and like Van Houten said referencing his own book, "The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended", but I truly believe Hazel will be reunited with her one true love one day. When it is her time to go. <br />
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One last thing: I hope that a drug such as "Phalanxifor" to help shrink tumors finally exists in the near future.
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My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/330566341">2 of 5 stars</a><br />
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To be honest, I was somewhat bored with this novel. It was actually very well written but just not my taste. A modern day "war love" book.
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My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/330784794">5 of 5 stars</a><br />
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Wow...stayed up 'til 2:05 am just to finish this because it's one of those books that you CANNOT put down until you reach the happy ending where everyone lives "happily ever after." <br />
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An intensely deep book. As you read, you really begin to sympathize with Ally as if you were the one in her situation and you begin to feel just as frustrated with Jake as he is with himself. You have this on-off love/hate relationship with each of the characters but by the end you come to LOVE every single one of them. It's real. It's raw. It's high school. The drama, the couples, the first loves, the moods, the loyalty, the decisions, the insecurities and uncertainties, the choice to forgive, the idea of growing up, the ups and the downs. But you can't have the "ups" without the "downs", right? <br />
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My favorite character was Annie mostly because of her wit, brains, and of course her sarcastic humor. She thinks deeper and darker than the rest of the characters which helps to reveal Chloe's BIG secret. <br />
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WARNING: Once you begin to read, you will NOT be able to put this book down. Get ready for one crazy roller coaster ride.
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8662836-chain-reaction" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry, #3)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327881446m/8662836.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8662836-chain-reaction">Chain Reaction</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/274533.Simone_Elkeles">Simone Elkeles</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/324457056">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
Once again, I fell in love with a Fuentes brother. Luis's brains mixed with his undeniable swagger made him a desirable character.
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Mothers know best because they’ve been around longer than you<br />
Mothers know best because they are the only ones that care about you<br />
Mothers know best because they don’t want to see you get hurt<br />
Mothers know best because they are always alert</div>
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Mothers know best because they have part of your DNA<br />
Mothers know best because they always know what to say<br />
Mothers know best no matter if it is night or day<br />
Mother’s know best, so always obey</div>
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Mothers know best when you’re heartbroken in tears<br />
Mothers know best when you don’t know in which direction to steer<br />
Mothers know best when you don’t know where to begin<br />
Mothers know best like a sister knows her twin</div>
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So,<br />
Listen when your mother ask you to clean your room<br />
Listen to your mother because she carried you for nine months in her womb<br />
Listen to your mother even if you don’t think she is right<br />
Listen to your mother and your future will be bright<br />
Mothers know best, that is something that will always be true<br />
Mothers know best because they love you <3</div>
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#Doesn'tGetMuchBetterThanThisYoung Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-5006954376768013982012-05-08T16:32:00.004-07:002012-05-08T16:32:47.041-07:00PART 2 :)Just started writing Part 2 of my book! Word count so far= 46,140!<br />
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But like Napoleon Hill said, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dreams are the seedlings of reality</span>."Young Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-78411086852984209962012-05-06T03:32:00.001-07:002012-05-13T18:50:31.407-07:00Must Have Book of the Day:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Honey, Baby, Sweetheart</b> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span itemprop="name">Deb Caletti</span></span></span><br />
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Irises<br />
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The House on Mango Street<br />
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Perfect Chemistry Series </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart</span>Young Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-4203596356032580922012-05-05T00:55:00.004-07:002012-05-05T00:55:39.181-07:00For all those POETRY LOVERS out there...Check out my poetry blog! :) Love to hear what you think!<br />
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Snaps for poetry!Young Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033928224608726841.post-88047390921354504442012-05-05T00:15:00.000-07:002012-05-09T16:29:54.726-07:00My Favorite Authors:Here's a list of some of my absolute FAVORITE authors that have inspired my own work. They're creative and know how to capture your attention.<br />
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1. Ally Carter<br />
2. Jennifer Echols<br />
3. Deb Caletti<br />
4. Sarah Dessen<br />
5. Simone Elkeles<br />
6. Lauren Barnholdt<br />
7. Alyson Noel<br />
8. Stephanie Meyer<br />
9. Nicholas SparksYoung Adulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12292963982762908176noreply@blogger.com0