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[aid] => mick
[title] => When I was Young, Everything was Easy.... Part 2
[time] => 2005-08-01 19:31:25
[hometext] => another part
[bodytext] => When I was young, everything was easy. I didn’t stay up for hours, stressing about college, or bite my nails, anticipating that one, acceptance letter. Heartaches and romance didn’t exist when I was five, Nor did I wonder if I would ever survive. The words “I’m broke”, “I’m in debt”, Had no meaning in my simplistic mind. I never wished I could rewind the years, forget the tears, erase the years. Over the past decade, I’ve developed a habit. One that kills, but feels, oh so good. Inhaling the death, releasing the stress, A feeling I never knew as a kid. Now, out of college, trying to make a living. I scrape, just to survive. I can barely pay four hundred dollars for rent, plus electricity, and put food on the table. I’m only 26... [comments] => 2 [counter] => 210 [topic] => 48 [informant] => aprillie [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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