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character

by elle-koenig

i don’t understand how you can say everyone is equal say you love and respect all human beings then turn around and spit at my friend’s feet i love her not the way she will love another girl someday but is it so wrong that a single boy or girl might find a slight piece of happiness in the midst of this vat of cruelty we call our world i don’t understand how you can put on such a mask, so sad about a boy’s suicide and then laugh about a girl wounding her skin about a boy crying late at night my friend wanting to die is it so unreasonable that they (we) might want an escape from cold cruel mean torturous unkind despicable malicious hatred you i don’t understand how you can believe that skin color determines character that because of how my sister was born she is this because of how my brother was born he is that because now i have become your puppet i am whatever you want me to be whatever i am needed to be you are not my character
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