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Hessa Danvers

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A Rose In The Rain.

Submitted to Contest #112

I used to love rain. It was hard to hate something so beautiful. I used to believe it was impossible to hate something beautiful. That is laughable now. Beautiful things are the ones that hurt the most. The ones that cut deeper than anything. Like a Rose in a garden. So beautiful, so inviting. Yet when you get close enough to the blooming bud, nothing good happens. Your hand brushes a thorn, and you are in pain, bleeding. Yet the beautiful rose stares back at you. Perhaps that is where it gets its color, its beauty, from th...

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