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Ida B

It's a win book. I read it a few years ago. I didn't think of it until now, but it touches up on a lot of my beliefs.

Ida B is home schooled, because after a few days of school, she hates it because of all the useless rules, and this is in Kindergarten. All she did was look out the window. Then her mom gets cancer, which is something I know oh so well. They have to send Ida B to school again (which she gets pissed over), and sell the forest, and her friends are literally the trees, she talks to them. (Hell, whatever makes the kid happy) Then a whole bunch of trees get chopped down. So after crying, she promises never to cry again, especially around her parents, and, as she calls it, builds a new heart out of ice where the old one was.

She's so similar to me, it's not even real. She even drew a picture of her school as a pile of rubble, and her standing on top of it.
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Heh, she didn't kill her heart?

I would've, but I already did.
Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

I gave her wings but she don't wanna fly no more.

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One moar book to check out through torrents before I decide to buy it.

I despise libraries.
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Electro Gypsy Wrote:One moar book to check out through torrents before I decide to buy it.

I despise libraries.

SAME, I don't even really know why.

Dear god, I ask for a book, and my mother is like we'll go to the library.

It's like holy water to a Faerie in Artemis fowl.
Anything that ever happened or will... one condition, it has to be amazing.

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Watching the tide roll away
Ooo, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
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It's more that I dislike borrowing books. I mean, come on. A book is a book. You can't... It just doesn't seem right.
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Seriously? Libraries are awesome. If we lose libraries and/or the internet then we can say goodbye to free speech as we know it.
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Libraries, not book stores.

I don't know why, I just despise them. It's just... Unnatural. You don't borrow books from an insitution. If I believed in Christianity I'd say it's unGodly, but since I don't, I'm just gonna say it's disrespectful.
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