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Created on: April 06, 2009
Childhood meant being
Grabbed out of my car seat
Thrown into bed
Yanked from the bathtub
Amid the glares and the insults and the smacks and the slaps
Then you
A kiss after a difficult day
A gentle touch after an absence
So new
Do I deserve this?
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