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Oh child sometimes HOME is not a place war cannot will never erase it’s the armour you wear the coat of arms on the shield you bare through bloodline borne in your heart in your mind in your name unconquerable Divine sometimes HOME is not a place it’s a voice a face, a memory a saving grace it’s the strength of Light never lost guiding you HOME constant, true always shining you through (LadyLabyrinth / 2022) LUX VITAE gvlm – llb “Fortress” https://youtu.be/dNwNSU5NikU “I don't want to fail you so I tell you the awful truth Everyone faces darkness on their own As I have done, so will you Every fortress falls It is not the end It ain't if you fall But how you rise that says Who you really are So get up and go through If ever your fortress caves You're always safe in mine “ (“Fortress”, Queens of the Stone Age) LYRICS/ “Fortress”, Queens of the Stone Age https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queensofthestoneage/fortress.html

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Daisy Reilly

Date: 9/1/2022 3:00:00 AM

Beautiful

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/3/2022 11:17:00 AM

"Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” Anne Frank

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:27:00 AM

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:19:00 AM

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/3/2022 11:16:00 AM

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” Anne Frank

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:20:00 AM

“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.” Anne Frank

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/3/2022 11:14:00 AM

“Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 2:06:00 PM

such a strong girl that Anne and her sister. Her words are taken into everyone's heart. A true angel. And strongly relevant in today's current climate of war and rumours of war.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:24:00 AM

Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:14:00 AM

"Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.” Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 11:14:00 AM

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” Anne Frank

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/3/2022 10:53:00 AM

Children and War.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 10:59:00 AM

https://abcnews.go.com/International/mental-health-effects-ukraine-war-zone-children/story?id=83203801

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 10:57:00 AM

https://www.unicef.org/stories/children-under-attack-six-grave-violations-against-children-times-war

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 10:55:00 AM

https://www.savethechildren.net/sites/default/files/waronchildren/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 10:53:00 AM

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/children-and-war

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/3/2022 12:42:00 AM

Mother/Daughter, I Am, Love, Light, Strength, Truth

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/3/2022 1:03:00 AM

Coat of Arms/Burton, Motto: The Light is My Guide. Latin translation: Light of Life.