The Roads Taken
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Life is a series of trials and errors, One would like to say that we're perfect but we aren't. Humans are the only species to be perfectly imperfect, the imperfections that we dwell on in ourselves and in others tends to be the ones connected with the things that make us unique. In order for us to be us though, we must go through our own pain to truly know happiness, these are a series of poems written but the author over her childhood and adult life about being perfectly imperfect and about life.
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