Cherry

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You were beaten again

When

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Yesterday

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How log has this been going on

Long*

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Since I was fourteen

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Your dad was normal before that

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I suppose so

I didn't see much of him

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What do you mean

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He sent me to a missionary boarding school in Portland

Couldn't care for me and handle his job and run the house

Got overwhelmed

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After that

???

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He had to pull me out

The nuns said I was getting out of hand

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Were you

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I wasn't

The children picked on me

I just fought back

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And now you know why I don't want to fight back

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Why did they pick on you

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It started in 5th Grade

On parent-teacher's meeting

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The kids realized that my parents never came to the meetings

They asked me about it

My mistake was saying that I had no mother

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One of the girls Sienna

She was convinced that kids don't come without mothers

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She called me a freak

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It got worse after that

?

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Yes

The older we got, the more vicious everyone became

And I always was the prime target

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I started fighting back when I was 12

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People are stupid

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Not all of them

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The entire human race is fucking stupid

You're stupid

I'm stupid

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Selfish

Greedy

Narcissistic

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Not you, though

You seem so self-aware

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You already forgot what I did with you

Damn you're the stupidest

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Why'd you go to work if it hurts so much

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You're in Matheson's

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I was passing by

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Oh

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Should've taken the day off

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I don't like staying at home

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You can't even walk

And you went to work

Idiot

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Why won't you tell the authorities

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It won't work

Dad's a lawyer

You must've heard of him

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Christian Miller

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Who won the twenty years long post marital rape case

In favor of the rapist husband?!

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Yes, the one and only...

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Did you finish Iliad?

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Of course not

It's more than 65000 lines

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Me either

But, mostly because I got bored

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Your taste in poetry sucks ass

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Hey!

Only last week you thought ALL poetry sucked!

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Now look at you criticizing MY taste in poems

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You know, life isn't all romance and beauty

And virtues and heavenly gardens and shit

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There's battles and manipulations

Oppression

Death

Loss

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With that in mind reread Iliad

You'll understand it much better

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Okay, I'll do that

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Well, do you have a favorite line yet?

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Not a favorite line

But I like this dialogue by Achilles

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What dialogue?

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We men are wretched things

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Of course

Appeals to your misanthropy, doesn't it?

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Yep

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I'll leave you to read...

Goodnight Cigarette

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