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I didn't grow up.

5'8"

(since junior year)

I grew

comfortable
filling my own skin

with strength
and tears
and fears
and
most of all
love

in and out
flying and

falling;

finding the sum of me
larger than

the equation of
you & I.

-Cassandra Allen
1st Place Poetry Contest Winner

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