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Rights Declaring that you can do a thing, demanding that it go your way… These are careless, and chaotic emotions, placed on actions that have consequences. Custody battles, divorce and time shared in the darkness of loss. Broken dreams, battle grounds where the innocent are victims not by chance. Families have roots like trees. Grafted branches grow and become one. Lightening, harsh wild fires, mud slides and bitter colds, take the weak. Those still left standing are thrilled to make it, to the next day. To start again and rebuild what was someone else’s exactness to tear down. Betrayal. You did this or that! We are going to do it the right way. My way! The cost to decline beyond payment. We will soon be in the streets. There is nothing to eat in the refrigerator. The cabinets are empty. Applications for assistance have been made. An odd shame is felt, for what reason, it is unclear. The law says life is equal, well at least for some…not all. No one cares the tears behind each word, written on white paper and stamped…twice. No one can care as there are just too many…stamped at all. The payment for your correctness, your perfection of life standards, is the empty smiles of butchered memories in albums not acid free.

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Date: 11/4/2019 4:45:00 PM
Hi Ann... It seems to me that this writing tell of stories of those who'd lived to know. It's so much there within. Touched on topics many. Leaving swirling thoughts in my head.... hopefully they will settle soon. For now... it is a life full... "The payment for your correctness, your perfection of life standards, is the empty smiles of butchered memories in albums not acid free." ~~~Niyna
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Ann Foster
Date: 11/4/2019 4:52:00 PM
Hugs my friend. God give you every blessing. Ann
Date: 11/4/2019 7:44:00 AM
"No one cares the tears behind each word, written on white paper and stamped…twice." Paper has so little to do with the real emotions.
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Date: 11/4/2019 8:18:00 AM
when the lady hits it at the office, with the giant stamp, not once but twice, on every page to ten people, you begin to think you are being beaten with every hit. It is amazing to stand there... and take it... So many have to do it... choice or no choice... it just happens. Ann

Book: Shattered Sighs