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Clare Smytfi Maloney

“Som ehow I have to k eep and hold the rapture o f being seven­
teen. E v en day is so precious I feel infinitely sad at the thought o f
all this time m elting farther and farther away from m e as I grow
older. Now, now, is the p erfect time o f m y life” Slyvia Plath
o
Mom & Dad: "II you could only live my life, you would see die
difference you’ve made to me” (gnr) I don’t know how to say thank
you to die people who have filled my life with happiness and oppor­
tunity and still managed to batde the bad days or die bitter tones. I
lor e you so much and I am blessed to have been given till the best
from you.
Kris: you knew I ’d say,‘remember die time we met with painted
faces at the church picnic?’ You understand me when no one else
can. you listen when no one else hears, and you have been more than
my best friend for these past thirteen years- you have been my sister
m everyway loveyou
Stina: "i liked it best how we took the whole world on back to back
long knives drawn”(rainer maria) We’ve reached the end together
and I know I couldn’t hav e survived without you by my side. Thanks
for making these four years some of the best -”hey mom! put that tv
back it’s not yoursl” loveyou
“first you decide what you’ve
gotta do then you go out and
do it and maybe the most
that we can do is just to see
each other through it”

s a m . s t a v r i t s a : y o u are amazing people, iloveyouguys;
fishin - goose?, hamster dance, brownies, stiloski, yo <3 nica,
smizzle diat shizzle lizzie izzle, paprika: rainer maria, “i say it’s all
cellophane” (vonnegut), oochiwally toby: “how did we get here?
to this point of living? i held my breath, and you said something”
(pj harvev), and thank you for all the things you’ve said, re: la vida
dolce, ani (x2) C a r o l i n e , d a n i . k a t i e b : damn the
man, seated scribe (kay?!?), judas priest, bodasss, mash podzzles is
the shizzle, swanky’s, rasta, thanks for all the fun s t e f . m e g a
n : what would my frees be w.o you? english papers (..or not),
operation: procrastination, tillie? b u t i ’o3: “friends do not live
in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody” (thoreau),
tanglewOOd picnics: kait, cathy, aurelia, jjj; boston: dylan/
bulat(lug),/ovemissyouall, e n g a g e
kris . jo . james . edwin . cerplunk (co-pilot): old school
crew, movies, suzanloriparks, vt, arguments - old couple style,
snoop in tire cady, church, it usually goes without saying: i love you
guys so much, thanks for always being there:
“..you’ve got your whole life to
do something, and that’s not very long” ani difranco
o
“So, I guess we are who we are fora lot o f reasons. A nd maybe w e’ll
never know most o f them. But even if we d o n ’t have the pow er to
choose where we com e from , we can still choose where we go from
there. W e can still do things. A n d we can try to feel okay about
them ’’Stephen Chbosky

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