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July 20, 2011
By CookieMonster001 BRONZE, Sevierville, Tennessee
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"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." --William James

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Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to have a twin.
Then, no matter how much anyone on the planet changed,
I could rest assured that I would have at least one thing
in common with someone else.
Something concrete and sturdy.
Something that couldn't be destroyed, interrupted, or stolen.
No dissolution.
No forgetting it.
No undoing it.
Something not even death could take away.

© Amanda L., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
Lying in bed late one night, as usual, I thought of how alone all of us are. Even if we're surrounded by friends and family.
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