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On a thin piece of paper she found on the floor, she wrote a poem called 'Dad' because she had never had one before. The kids at school took her poem and ripped it to shreds and called her a weirdo because she never had a thing called a 'Dad'. She wrote it over and showed her teacher who gave her an A with a gold star at the top. She took it home to her mother who showed the whole family and posted it right above her calendar wall so every one in the house could see it.

On the back of a sticky note, which had already slightly been used, she wrote a poem called 'fear' because it's the only thing she would be feeling when all of the lights went off at night. She showed her teacher the poem she had wrote on the not-so-sticky sticky note, leaving her teacher feeling the name of the poem. Her teacher showed her mom who in fact had loved the poem her daughter had wrote and posted it on their fridge with a magnet in the shape of a heart. Her mother read it to friends and family feeling proud of what her daughter had wrote. Her friends thought she was strange but they liked her all the same. That was the year she got a prank love note from the mean boys down the block. They told her she was sweeter than sherbet which she knew was just some silly joke and would never be true.
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