Relapse

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I put her in a corner.
I sat her gently down.
I said you can't just run my life, you can't push me around.
Her sharp smile softened.
Her face turned to a frown.
She pouted out a huffy fine, and turned her back around.
A few weeks passed and there she stood stiff, and thin, and small.
Until the weight crept back on and back to me she crawled.

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