For d’Verse–tho when I looked earlier I saw no Mar 23 listed as Open Link.
MY MIRROR iS A LIAR
It is my fifth birthday and
I am in pigtails, swinging
on the garage door,
wondering if I will still
be me
when I am grown.
Seventy-five years later,
I am.
Come see what I share
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Good for you!!! We can never lose touch with our inner child!! 🙂
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To change the subject a tad…if it’s well-behaved and not president!
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Age is a number without much meaning. Perhaps the most beautiful and youthful-at-heart person that I know just turned 93.
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I believe in this…be a young girl at heart~
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I’m working on it! Thanks, Grace.
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She’s lucky to have you for a friend.
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I’m the same me as well. Even though I’ve lost all those baby teeth.
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And I’ve lost all those grown-up teeth!
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Yes somewhere it’s the same… I never look in the mirror.
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Fun
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Thanks!
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Funny, isn’t it, despite advancing years, inside we’re still the little girl with pigtails or the little boy with frogs in our pockets! I loved your poem (and identified with it).
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Yes! Evidently when I was 5 years old I was afraid I’d turn into one of those other people on the inside. When I was ten I found a note from me at 5: Hello, How are you? Are you still me? I just realized, I could write when I was five. I’d forgotten that. Thanks for sharing.
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That’s a great way to think, Nan. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Only way I know! Thanks for the affirmation.
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