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Child


Soft sunlight pours over campus

Streams of students pouring out of buildings

Different

Everything feels different

This is the place I worked so hard for

So fast

Still a student

Utilities, rent, groceries, why do these words cause me so

much worry now... 

No time now

 

 

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