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I love how you weave together hope and light and darkness and disappointment all into a single poem, Karri! I especially like the line, “the pastel years, accented by ribbons and bows” and how you used changing colors and prints to show the way (as I understood it) that life often gets harder and more complicated as it goes.

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Yes it does...I just remember thinking "this will be easier as they get older." Um, no. False.

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