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Created on: March 02, 2009
Take me away from this place
disconnect me from all I know.
I need a place
where no one knows my face
and I can be who I am inside.
For too long now I have been that girl;
the one everyone knows and asks how its going.
How my mom and brothers are.
Is my brother still in jail and do I still fight with my mom.
How is my boyfriend? Are things any better?
If you'd just stop asking, I would tell you.
Stop assuming I'm that girl
Actually I have changed.
But you are all to stuck on the past
to see it, I suppose.
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