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I am a sleeping gnome

I am an animal I no longer recognize my convertible Chevy days lying back in the dust I barely remember young me ….cotton candy me, heroine me, lively me we are an old woman now, a sleeping gnome an obese dragon who is dragg’n I was going to scale skyscrapers in a single bound rescue those in desperate need but I never found them I sleep the sleep of a corpulent Rubenesque soldier who was never the pirate queen she set out to be

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Date: 10/18/2024 10:48:00 PM
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 10/20/2024 12:00:00 AM
probably eight years

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