I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard. I liked contorting my body until I could feel the ache inside my bones, until I could feel the pain in my teeth. I liked to wear lipstick and nothing else and found myself fascinated with the shape of my lips and the different colors I could make them. I ate too little. Slept too much. Masturbated far too often and at far too young an age. I enjoyed the feeling of being naked alone behind closed doors, exploring my deepest secrets within my imagination, as I put my hand over the rapid pace of my heart to feel how nervous it made me. I blushed at the faintest mention of my name and almost perished when complimented. I loved to find the answers behind someone’s eyes. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of when someone REALLY looks at you. And I read. Every chance I got. .R.B. OBrien
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I like to look at the stars at night. There is something special about the way the stars look in the night sky. I like to read. It is an escape for me.
Sometimes I find myself standing in front of a bookcase, pulled in by all of the books, and I can’t help but want to pick one up and read it. I love to read because it feels like it brings me closer to someone else’s world. It is not just that someone else’s world, either.
My world is made up of all of the words that have been written by others over the years, across the place and time that has passed.
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