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My Greatest Fear

August 30, 2011
By NicAliceF GOLD, Tacoma, Washington
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Favorite Quote:
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. <br /> Ernest Hemingway

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I'll die and not know it,
A cruel and selfish bird.
My husband will hate me,
Too rigid and absurd.
My word will be frail,
Unread and obsolete.
He'll read by mail
That I begged for my life,
And died on the street.

© Molly L., Bethesda, MD

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