Preferences



Open your eyes, can you see me? I am the one they always talk about, but they don't know it. I am the one they slander, but they won't admit it. I am the one they'd forget who I was, the me deep inside. The me they once laughed and talked with. If only the me they knew, they wouldn't talk anymore.
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Written on 2021

Submitted by stacey.powellSP25 on September 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Characters 298
Words 62
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