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One of Those Summers
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Author: Lira Wren
One of Those Summers
POP
“Wind and Storm may erupt us but we are our strength.”
PUFF, I am in that strength.
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I found the box—
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Music rose, velvet glowed,
my heart lifted…
but only my reflection gazed back.
And then—
I saw it.
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