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  That Kind of Love

  By Joseph S., Evergreen Park, IL

  I hope it’s okay if I start with a cliché, Because sometimes you really don't know what you've got till it's gone, and by then you're a pawn in this game called love. And love is interesting because once it starts infesting your life it's something you can't liv...
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  Mine

  By Joseph S., Evergreen Park, IL

  When I first got my Macbook, I hated it. The only thing on the plus side was that it was mine. I’m not a selfish person, so I don’t know why simple ownership of something is such a big deal to me. Maybe it comes from growing up in a family of seven and rarely having sole possessions. Maybe it co...
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  Rise Above

  By Joseph S., Evergreen Park, IL

  Do you drink? I do drink – water. Because someday I might wanna have a daughter or a son or a niece or a nephew and I want to be one of the few who rose above the influence. It took my grandfather, the Buskas, the great Farley and Belushi. I never met my grandpa because he could not rise a...