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  • being home alone on a sunlit afternoon
  • having someone at night to snuggle up to
  • sleeping in
  • surviving something terrifying no worse for the ware
  • boys with wavy, brown, shoulder-length hair
  • warm, well lit rooms
  • handwritten letters
  • buying secondhand books for less than a dollar
  • listening to "old time rock and roll" as I devour strawberry waffles
  • old souls
  • learning without the pressure to succeed
  • boys that fancy me
  • things that taste like fire
  • feeling warm, safe, and content
  • taking a deep, steadying breath
  • telling stories
  • magical adventures
  • enjoying the cinema by myself
  • doing little things that others aren't allowed to
  • being seduced
  • bilingual movies
  • people asking me to go out for a change
  • drinking lukewarm tea
  • receiving things that I desperately need
  • conversing with strangers
  • doing something nice for someone who can never reciprocate the gesture
  • epic dreams
  • the prospect of being beautiful
  • memories
  • shouting out lyrics at the top of my lungs
  • the international terminal at hartsfield-jackson
  • explaining how "without just one nest, a bird can call the world home"
  • savoring my grandmother's scrumptious grits
  • staying up until all hours of the morning for a chance at Pottermore with my cousin, hunting for the perfect butterbeer frappuccino with Alex, or just watching A Very Potter Musical with my bfs (basically that part of childhood you just won't leave)

to be continued...

jan 14 2011 ∞
aug 18 2011 +