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"Girls shouldn't smoke" I'm sorry sir, say that again? Tell that to the 15 year old hispanic girl who sold her virtue under the guidance of the traffic lights to pay off her mother's cancer bills. Tell that to the wife of a man who beat beat beats her, because some nights she refuses to kneel at his supposed genital altar and confess her sins. Tell that to the girl who has spent 6 months carving her home address into her forearms, hoping that her Mum would smell the rust and come and rescue her. Tell that to the girl who was stolenshackleddruggedsold under the consent of her father who used her body as a paycheck to settle his blackjack debt. To the lonely girl. The ugly girl. The fat girl. The anorexic girl. The bulimic girl. The girl. "Girls shouldn't smoke." Tell that to the women who find their prayers in the daily grace that is, nicotine. Just like men do.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 10:30 PM UTC
Gender based addictions.
"Girls shouldn't smoke" I'm sorry sir, say that again? Tell that to the 15 year old hispanic girl who sold her virtue under the guidance of the traffic lights to pay off her mother's cancer bills. Tell that to the wife of a man who beat beat beats her, because some nights she refuses to kneel at his supposed genital altar and confess her sins. Tell that to the girl who has spent 6 months carving her home address into her forearms, hoping that her Mum would smell the rust and come and rescue her. Tell that to the girl who was stolenshackleddruggedsold under the consent of her father who used her body as a paycheck to settle his blackjack debt. To the lonely girl. The ugly girl. The fat girl. The anorexic girl. The bulimic girl. The girl. "Girls shouldn't smoke." Tell that to the women who find their prayers in the daily grace that is, nicotine. Just like men do.
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 10:30 PM UTC
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