Sticks and Stones

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Sticks and stones

Sticks and stones may break my bones

But words can also hurt me

Sticks and stones break only skin

While words are ghosts that haunt me

Pain from words has left its scar

On mind and heart that's tender

Cuts and bruises now have healed

it's words that I remember 

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