Keep Quiet Girl
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2 min readOct 11, 2019
Keep quiet girl,
no tears.
Tears are for sissies and girls, right?
I bit my lip
secured my toughness
like a rite of passage
tough like my brothers
tough like my brothers
don’t cry
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