Skin of Paper

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Her skin was the paper
of all of the books she
had ever read, her tears
were the ink and her thoughts
were all the words written
inside books. And the thing
about paper was that
once it was crumpled, it
could never revert back
to the way it was. Do
not ever crumple her.
Hold her close and run your
fingers over each of
her pages, along her
spine; but do not ever
make the awful mistake
of crumpling her up, or
of ripping her apart,
or of even folding
down one of her pages.
It cannot be undone.

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