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If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

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Boys, Footnotes, One Thing

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I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.

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Beautiful, Mom, Mirrors

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Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

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Beautiful, True Beauty, Definitions

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From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

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Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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Silence, too, can be torture.

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Silence, Torture

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You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

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Sometimes, Jacob, Routes

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There is real comfort in being quiet.

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Real, Comfort, Quiet

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Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

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Fun, Safe, Rooms

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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?

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Doors, Lasts, Pants

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Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

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Beautiful, Memorable, Interesting

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If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

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Attitude, Makeup, Clothes

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That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

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Tattoo, Perfect, Body

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What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

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Beautiful, Sunset, Lakes

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You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

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Here I Am, Needs

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The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so deeply and truly, we were only really complete when we were together. That I could talk, go on wild tangents, make obtuse references, and he would divine my meaning before I knew what I was trying to say myself. Erik had fallen asleep next to me on the couch, complaining later that the movie was "just people talking." He had no idea that this movie could have been a love letter written for me.

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Sunset, Talking, Ideas

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My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

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Mean, Looks, Facade

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Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?

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Coffee, Hair, Smell

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If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole? You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

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Art, Fear, Thinking

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A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

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Jobs, Worry, Way

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You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

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Running, Guy, Way

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No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

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Absolutes, Permanent

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There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

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Memories, Dragons, Challenges

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I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

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Dad, Eggs, Firsts

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Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

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Teacher, Class, Speak

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The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.

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Girl, Falling In Love, Sweaters

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