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Living in My Mother's Commercial

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Perhaps it is too detailed...I need to work on that a lot

I've watched her in the corner of my eyes	1
scared to look at her straight forward	2
so beautiful she might have disappeared.	3
Why was I never allowed to share such beauty?	4

She strived to be perfection itself	5
Making sure all was right before he came.	6
With him it never was...	7
The shadows on her showed the affliction.	8

I've watched her make the shadows worse	9
too scared to make her cloak of perfection transparent	10
Why did I allow myself to be just as transparent?	11

17 Feb 07

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line 9, change worst to worse.

-pollyreg
— unknown

Interesting topic, I think you should keep working on this, the answers are in there, somewhere
— unknown

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