Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, …

Laurie Halse Anderson
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Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). Wintergirls, p.52, Penguin
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Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs. ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). Wintergirls, p.52, Penguin

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