sometimes people rather stay away from me,
maybe they think im a replication of my mother
who turned into an alcoholic jumble of mess
who yelled at whoever glanced or peaked at her black shiny hair
or stepped on her new shiny boots
because after my parents broke up,
she broke off her connection to the world
so when she gets home from double shifts at 10pm,
she is locked in her room until she brings up the courage to ask for breakfast
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one day i see my dad outside our door with an envelope
so i run to hug him but he doesn't hug back
he just hands me the envelope and walks away..
and i felt so stupid
to think that anyone would ever love a cursed girl
with a crazy mother
so i lay in the grass
hoping i would disintegrate back into the earth
no one would miss me anyway
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Life, Not Roses
PuisiAs Alice struggles into 9th grade, she realizes that life is not the beauty caught in movies in films. Her perfect life turned upside down as life crashes down on her family.
