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During my twenty year struggle with life-threatening diseases
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I used to poke around town with my hair pulled back,
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Skin blotchy, and fifteen pounds overweight
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I sat next to you there
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Many times
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And you never noticed me
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Until one day about four months after I lost my second breast
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I walked into the room and you followed me around
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You looked straight in the eye for the sole reason-
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I was dressed differently- I had on turquoise sweat pants
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And a levi jacket, large and faded, with pins attached to it-
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Great Grand's dark blue stones embedded in crusader's cross
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An Indian pin made of laced silver and turquoise
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And others worth mentioning-Anyway-
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I had big hair that day and maybe some lipstick on
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You finally wanted me because
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I didn't look old and fat and ugly anymore
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I'll read poetry to you but I'm not going to sleep with you
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You should have pulled my ponytail when I was sick
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