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All the Beautiful People

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JJ-Lit

Published: Aug 8, 2012

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What of the man, who stands before you with nothing: having tragically lost his wife on the backend of life? Now sits in front of his television set harboring thoughts of his children, before they grew up and moved on. Is this man's suffering any greater than the one with empty hands, who has never known such things?

It's a good question, but it seems to me the latter of the two -couldn't possibly know what he's missing.

What of the single mother, down on her luck for a lifetime: now stands before the podium her daughter clad in the cloths of achievement -does her new found pride and glory outweigh the hardships she's faced? I doubt it, but we take all we can get.

These are the people -those truly beautiful people, who know what it means to fight and to do without, to rise and fall and rise again. For they can truly appreciate life, with words like: the world is hopeless, but I love it anyway.

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