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    Let’s Talk About Sex

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    Broken Webs

    I’m looking through the glassyour lifeYou smile, twirl, and pipeto your followers.You spin your web and entangle othersManipulation and imitationyou draw them in. The glass fogs up as Ibreathe on it.Helpless.  No way to warn.Threadsof deception ensnare.They are wrappedin a tangled web.  You smile.then I realize I am not helpless.  With onestrong strikethe glass cracks ...
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    CP and Me: My Answers To The Cerebral Palsy Tag

    March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is considered to be a neurological disorder caused by a non-progressive brain injury that is caused while a child’s brain is still developing. It primarily affects body movement and muscle coordination, but it can also affect muscle tone, posture, and balance, as well as gross motor, ...
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    My Village

    I was thinking about the old saying “it takes a village” the other day. I come from a blended family. My parents divorced when I was a toddler and a decade later, my mother married another man and they had a son. I am beyond grateful to have a wonderful step-dad and a loving little ...
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