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For The People To Drink

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“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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message 5: by Erika

Jun 03, 2010 08:37PM

I learned that the trails and tribulations that we face in life do not vary much generation to generation. The transition from ordinary to extraordinary comes from those who have faith in God and who have the ability to endure. :-)

Jaree wrote: "I think 12 E.W. is a great title for you. What did you learn from it?

- Jay"

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message 4: by Jaree

Jun 03, 2010 08:19PM