twenty-six

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         My mom gave me a birthday present, for the first time since middle school; it was notebook, leather skinned, with a note in the front, for what you cannot say. Well, this letter is from the book, a ripped out page. 

           In fact, see that red stain on the edge?  That’s my blood.

           Ha, creepy, right? 

          Well, don’t worry, I simply got a paper cut.  Nothing vampire-ish about it.

       But then I realized, sitting in my room last night: what if, when you write me back (eventually), it hurts. 

          Like, really hurts.

          Will I get a paper cut heart?

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