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Submitted to Contest #102
It was then that it dawned on me.I’m a lollipop. One of those big rainbow ones we all dreamed of as kids. Bright and colorful and twisted in circles against my own will. I'm sweet - but squeeze too much out of me, demand too much, and we will both suffer silently from high blood pressure. My strength is seemingly like a rock - but let me down and drop me and you will see my almighty crash, hear every part of me visibly shatter, the colorful shards of my sweet innocence left there unnoticed, sharp, pokey, lonely, filling every corner of the r...
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