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you never look quite enough like yourself--there's an edge of a mask, something in the way you smile-- and i'm afraid of what's underneath. (way-back-when--when we were kids--you never smiled like that, and now it's the only smile you have to give.) (stop smiling and cry a little, will you?)
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Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 10:25 PM UTC
stop smiling
you never look quite enough like yourself--there's an edge of a mask, something in the way you smile-- and i'm afraid of what's underneath. (way-back-when--when we were kids--you never smiled like that, and now it's the only smile you have to give.) (stop smiling and cry a little, will you?)
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Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 10:25 PM UTC
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