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Emily Pearson

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Submitted to Contest #31

I can hear her humming to herself even before i am home. I'm nowhere close but I hear her. I knows she's standing there, in one of my shirts, hopefully in nothing but her underwear, cooking a meal she doesn't believe tastes good. She's cooked it a hundred times and always asks the same thing, "does it taste alright?" As soon as i come through the door, that smile washes away all of the stress of the day. That smile is what i live for. I've experienced alot of dark places in my life, and i would give anything if that smile had been there thro...

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You are so young in my dreams. Like when we are children. Waves of memories flow over me as i experience our childhood again. We run and laugh, playing princess and the hero. Suddenly i flash forward to watching you play baseball or football. I can hear the rocks fly as we ride our bikes down the roads of our town. My brother is there with us, your best friend. I feel the light and the warmth of those days.But then i wake; to the cold world that you no longer live in. How can the sun shine so bright without you in it? I drive the roads of ou...

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