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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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worry

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Don't Go

Submitted by Dreamsprite on April 15, 2008 - 19:03.

Sorry daddy
Didn't mean for you to walk out that door.
Didn't mean for mommy to yell you out the window.

Should have known when you started laying out a suitcase each morning
On your bed that's now covered in dust.
Should have know when you started giving me the saddest eyes
When I said "Bye Daddy!"
Should have known when you started sitting in the car
For hours and hours looking blankly ahead.
Should have known when you started coming home later and later
each night

Now you're just standing here, all alone.
Mommy's got a new set of pills in the bathroom
And she doesn't bother to look at me anymore.
uneasy silence
Is this the time when I should start worrying?
Is this a fading dream or a creeping reality?

They don't know me at all

Submitted by big_sis_rebel on October 18, 2007 - 09:06.

I smile as I walk down the hall
everyone thinks I'm so happy, no worries
but they don't know me at all

In side I'm screaming, fighting demons
like I'm wearing a mask
Everyone thinks I'm always am happy,
but I never truly am, and when I am it doesn't last

When I don't smile people notice
they ask me "What's wrong?"
But I can't tell them "I haven't been happy all along"

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