Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
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Zum Autor"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."
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"I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story."
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