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I’m the princess of typos a mistress of mistakes the duchess of defects a lady of lapses the empress of errors Let’s keep things informal you don’t have to bow I carry as many erasers as the law allows From now on, you can call me ‘Your highness,’ unless they start dusting off the guillotines. My written French is, at best, imperfect, I make grave mistakes. Mixing up things like my é (aigus) and è (graves). “Without the mistakes,” the TA shrugged, “you had one of the highest marks.” “Baiser-moi,” I whispered, disappointedly. I thought I’d written a solid paper on omega balances and oxidative stress measurements. Now that I’m in med-school I’ve so many things to learn. Did dinosaurs like doughnuts? Do squirrels tell nutty jokes? But it’s Sunday, I’m not learning anything today. I am, in fact, languishing in free-hours. It’s an unnatural scene - no pencils, no books, no studying student’s ***** looks. Pencils are having a heyday, in Paris, this year - they’re finally chic! I’ve always been a pencil girl (did I mention typos?). I know everyone says that now but it’s true, I swear. Making the Girl Scout Sign “Agh! I need a pencil,” someone said in class, just yesterday. I pretended not to hear them and griped my #5 mechanical-pencil a little closer and tighter. . . Songs for this: The Spot - Your Smith Decide to be happy - MisterWives . . 🎄🦌 It's that time of year - Here's a Christmas Playlist 🎄🦌 https://daweb.us/xmas/Christmas_16.mp3
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Nov 15, 2025
Nov 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM UTC
the princess of typos
I’m the princess of typos a mistress of mistakes the duchess of defects a lady of lapses the empress of errors Let’s keep things informal you don’t have to bow I carry as many erasers as the law allows From now on, you can call me ‘Your highness,’ unless they start dusting off the guillotines. My written French is, at best, imperfect, I make grave mistakes. Mixing up things like my é (aigus) and è (graves). “Without the mistakes,” the TA shrugged, “you had one of the highest marks.” “Baiser-moi,” I whispered, disappointedly. I thought I’d written a solid paper on omega balances and oxidative stress measurements. Now that I’m in med-school I’ve so many things to learn. Did dinosaurs like doughnuts? Do squirrels tell nutty jokes? But it’s Sunday, I’m not learning anything today. I am, in fact, languishing in free-hours. It’s an unnatural scene - no pencils, no books, no studying student’s ***** looks. Pencils are having a heyday, in Paris, this year - they’re finally chic! I’ve always been a pencil girl (did I mention typos?). I know everyone says that now but it’s true, I swear. Making the Girl Scout Sign “Agh! I need a pencil,” someone said in class, just yesterday. I pretended not to hear them and griped my #5 mechanical-pencil a little closer and tighter. . . Songs for this: The Spot - Your Smith Decide to be happy - MisterWives . . 🎄🦌 It's that time of year - Here's a Christmas Playlist 🎄🦌 https://daweb.us/xmas/Christmas_16.mp3
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Oh dear Lord, please don’t allow anything to obstruct our devotion or love to You but if something interferes help us to overcome it so as to Your love we can be true. In this world we are all beset at times by so many unwanted tribulations and woes that it seems as if they serve to lead us away from instead of towards You dispose. ________________________
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Mar 19, 2022
Mar 19, 2022 at 7:32 AM UTC
Quatrain #414 - Oh Dear Lord ......
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨? 𝘉𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘴? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦? 𝘖𝘳 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴? 𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵? 𝙉𝙖𝙮! 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤  𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝  𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨. 𝙏𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧, 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓁 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒, 𝐻𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅𝓈 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒  𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹.
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021 at 4:20 AM UTC
How has it made me Strong? (PART 2 and 1)
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨? 𝘉𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘴? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦? 𝘖𝘳 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴? 𝘚𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵? 𝙉𝙖𝙮! 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤  𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙝  𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨. 𝙏𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧, 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓁 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐼 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒, 𝐻𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅𝓈 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒  𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝑒𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹.
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I want to stay up late and write about everything I hate Everything stemming from a lack of humanity Why am I living through this time of insanity Is it to make me stronger, capable of anything great? It is more pain and struggle to endure More thoughts to flood my waking mind and stifle my gasping breath What a time to be alive when close contact is killer and true vulnerability is exposure When connection is weak and the circuits are short Isolation is preferred to stave that depression wave that everyone rides at some breaking point or another The swell is huge and I have had my fill Swimming to the bank to cash my earnings in clothes Drinking alkaline for balance over all of the swill Doomsday prepping for anything goes Leaning on what’s left of my will
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Nov 22, 2020
Nov 22, 2020 at 1:43 PM UTC
Pandemonium
I feel you grab forearms Same skin you lovingly kiss Keep burning for that side of you More and more it comes to this Room with uneasy air lingering I'll try to forget whichever fight Had that led to all that noise It's still going to be alright I will convince myself to take the blame Swallow down but it's stuck in my throat Swear it's what I must deserve The back of my mind knowing I don't Telling stories to **** with conscience Tempted to believe but know better We can do this back and forth for a bit This cannot go on forever Arranging pieces to fix what we broke Tangled with promises long overdue Never have your attention for long these days When I was young I mattered so much to you To feel that again I'd give My fears and sacrifice Listened to your point-of-view Then I realize we won't get that twice Laughing and living in love each day Was alive not just existing I should have known it wouldn't last I'm hurt and my body is constricting Now I am broken by the one I love I'm feeling betrayed Know you are in pain yourself Wondering if I should have stayed To follow instinct was stupid Should have been chasing my heart I didn't have the stamina Because I was falling apart A good person what I was trying to be Once thought I did the right thing Didn't just hurt you with my decision More like mutual suffering I inhale unbridled woes But part of you is dead Swear to die so you can't **** me yourself Bullet through both our heads
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Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 7:51 PM UTC
Two Brains One Bullet
my dire apprehensions they gracefully disappear as the waves emerge my eyes waterless the wind tangled in my lashes sparked a cry the lonely ocean washes away my woes as the waves emerge the lies are purified so the ocean heard my cry
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Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020 at 5:33 AM UTC
waves
Every life exists To live and multiply. Every note exists To compose marvelous melodies. Imagination exists To see the worlds that cannot be seen. Emotions exist To express in languages that cannot be spoken. Death, too, exists To let the living taste the pain of losing. All things exist for a reason To make every mother’s son as they’re now. So fret not, folks For no one is an exception To the wonders and woes of this world Set in motion by the biggest yet gentlest hand of all.
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Sep 20, 2020
Sep 20, 2020 at 5:54 AM UTC
FRET NOT
carve your words on winds and let the fleeting air caress the wounds you courageously cut open; let them bleed again and let the fresh scent send the birds to singing; forget about the inked papers — no one reads anymore and the world forgets anyway
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Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020 at 1:26 AM UTC
Undaunted/Uninked
In this day and age, The mysterious ways Of men and their money Fill all of our days. A hashtag,  an update, A notification. Just to remind me Of my situation. Three years on the streets Meant nothing to me, But it showed me a world Few ever should see. Now Texas takes notice, Financial aid! The catch is,  of course, My ****** GPA. They do this on purpose. I'm ignorant? My *** "You've got seven hundred dollars To spend before class." "You can buy anything here, No gift cards, of course. " I said "this isn't a buffet;   That's a smorgasbord! " Give me three new shirts, All the books for my classes, A new backpack,  a hoodie, Alumni- framed glasses. Then,  send me an email, At nine in the morning That I'll be dropped by four p.m. without warning! So much for sleep. It's time for ******* Because these ****** people Are pulling THIS **** again. Loan counseling? What's that? "In forty- eight hours The approval will come back. " Are you being serious? I'm better off smoking crack! Just give me my education, And stay the hell off my back!
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Feb 5, 2020
Feb 5, 2020 at 5:17 PM UTC
This is "College Broke"
Never let a pebble        Become a boulder. For troubles should never      Accumulate to the point           Where you are lighter Than the weight of your woes.
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Jun 8, 2019
Jun 8, 2019 at 11:34 AM UTC
The weight of woes
We weigh the ways of the woes We woo the ways of the whys We woo the wise with their ways Why wait?
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Jun 4, 2019
Jun 4, 2019 at 8:03 PM UTC
Wise Whys
What goes on in your glowing head when you sit in front of your harp eyes wide shut your fingers thread and pluck, syncing with our heart the way you majestically play fills my ears with angelic tones stunned, I can't look away from your heavenly flowing bones Harp forged from Hephaestus' gold pluck and pick easy as a river's flow soft harmonies of Philip Glass enfold and just for a moment, forgotten woes
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 3:51 PM UTC
Orpheus Reincarnated
this middle aged rue stirring ****** haint no stranger to cold, when dark hen stormy wintry days eggs hit from Arctic portal en fold ding Atlantic Seaboard in a blizzard of bitterly, blindingly, and brutally sub zero temperatures from an occasional nor'easter fiercely gripping hold the majority years, sans this prolific recalcitrant scrivener lived in various and sundry abode housed within Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with 19*** zip code, and during my boyhood recall, how massive ice sheets did erode the (then) opened expansive farmland, in preparation for planting time, where runnels of frigid water flowed with childish cheeks exposed to glowed after hours upon many a green acre got tilled and hoed despite feeling energized and refreshed with arms and legs n'er fro zen aye didst eagerly await with exuberant yen kickstarting thy body electric experiencing hearthstone nook designed and built by Christopher Wren after heading indoors counting fingers and toes to make sure, i still got ten soon hearing the chorus of fauna, and floral kaleidoscope of color aground or taking wing thus, upon thawing out thoughts drifted toward approaching spring, the season revitalizing dormant natural inhabitants, whose excite (like mine) didst ping announcing the debut of fecundity nsync with screeching from the lizard king. This Spring Equinox (i.e. man date: 12:15 PM Tuesday, March twentieth two thousand eighteen) doth rejuvenate inviolable hibernating animals and plants, and me equate to experience sensation, whereby entire being does inflate and (despite marital status), nonetheless envisions another gal asthma mate no...no...no...please do not think this chap mean spirited and under rate the woman (at present taking a siesta, and i breathe easy), who oft times doth henpeck, a trait inherited many a chic hen (with tantalizing tail feathers) now (until she awakens) proscribing yours truly to wait for my repast most likely ad hoc moist ideal for any nerdy kid to knock senseless, the worst facet of self important **** consisting of pop slop mock Hungarian Goulash, a melange of relics from age old meals transformed into a petrified sawed little rock.
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Mar 5, 2018
Mar 5, 2018 at 4:20 PM UTC
spring equinox 2018
this middle aged rue stirring ****** haint no stranger to cold, when dark hen stormy wintry days eggs hit from Arctic portal en fold ding Atlantic Seaboard in a blizzard of bitterly, blindingly, and brutally sub zero temperatures from an occasional nor'easter fiercely gripping hold the majority years, sans this prolific recalcitrant scrivener lived in various and sundry abode housed within Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with 19*** zip code, and during my boyhood recall, how massive ice sheets did erode the (then) opened expansive farmland, in preparation for planting time, where runnels of frigid water flowed with childish cheeks exposed to glowed after hours upon many a green acre got tilled and hoed despite feeling energized and refreshed with arms and legs n'er fro zen aye didst eagerly await with exuberant yen kickstarting thy body electric experiencing hearthstone nook designed and built by Christopher Wren after heading indoors counting fingers and toes to make sure, i still got ten soon hearing the chorus of fauna, and floral kaleidoscope of color aground or taking wing thus, upon thawing out thoughts drifted toward approaching spring, the season revitalizing dormant natural inhabitants, whose excite (like mine) didst ping announcing the debut of fecundity nsync with screeching from the lizard king. This Spring Equinox (i.e. man date: 12:15 PM Tuesday, March twentieth two thousand eighteen) doth rejuvenate inviolable hibernating animals and plants, and me equate to experience sensation, whereby entire being does inflate and (despite marital status), nonetheless envisions another gal asthma mate no...no...no...please do not think this chap mean spirited and under rate the woman (at present taking a siesta, and i breathe easy), who oft times doth henpeck, a trait inherited many a chic hen (with tantalizing tail feathers) now (until she awakens) proscribing yours truly to wait for my repast most likely ad hoc moist ideal for any nerdy kid to knock senseless, the worst facet of self important **** consisting of pop slop mock Hungarian Goulash, a melange of relics from age old meals transformed into a petrified sawed little rock.
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All things so morose So many people speak of woes When we're deep in throes
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 5:47 AM UTC
Morose
the woes the woes of the poets did compound for there were many woes around the woes they couldn't surmount woes that stayed on the estate's   mount poets tormented by woes day and night and there was no respite for their plight the woes were never ending the woes not ever suspending the woes such as plagiarists taking works in pilfering fists so too the trolls on patrol on them no firm control woes woes woes besetting the poetry community woes woes woes permitted to act with licensed impunity woes woes woes of them not much immunity     woes woes woes
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Mar 17, 2017
Mar 17, 2017 at 8:19 PM UTC
Woes
You round up because what difference is a quarter of a inch Heels, depending on the size, will make you the average height Leggings and sweats will bunch at your ankles Shirts become dresses, but only for you Dress hems hit the floor, but only for you **** skirts become **** dresses Having to hem every single pair of jeans Sleeves. Sleeves are far too long "Petite" clothing doesn't fit either Step stools are your best friend Jumping for something that's just out of reach works too Constantly being mistaken for a 16 year old (Even if you are turning 20 this year) Being used as an armrest by someone who thinks they're funny Stuck in the front for every group photo There's that awkward height difference between you and everyone Standing on tiptoes and having the guy lean down for a kiss You hate sports that require tall people, like volleyball and basketball And yet, you wouldn't change your height for the world
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Jan 31, 2016
Jan 31, 2016 at 6:51 PM UTC
The Woes of a Short Girl: A Memior