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  <title>oh, tell me you can see me.</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:32:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>justincase.</title>
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  <description>&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_honestdrinking&apos; lj:user=&apos;honestdrinking&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://honestdrinking.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://honestdrinking.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;honestdrinking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i always need to post twice that i&apos;ve moved. &amp;hearts;&lt;br /&gt;(if you don&apos;t want to be friends, just continue to ignore me. i promise i&apos;ll un-add you soon.)</description>
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  <lj:music>&quot;glass&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; Bat For Lashes</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">&quot;glass&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; Bat For Lashes</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:47:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>things.</title>
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  <description>and right now music fangirling, poetic nothings and self-deprecation will not suffice. i need to explain a few things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;but. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;feel free to skip this?&lt;br /&gt;and if you don&apos;t, even if you don&apos;t comment, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, OMGZ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i think everyone who reads this knows that my parents are separated, because i&apos;m always saying &quot;mommy&apos;s house&quot; &amp; &quot;daddy&apos;s house&quot;. &lt;br /&gt;you may also have noticed that mommy doesn&apos;t have a house right now. financially, we&apos;re in a very desperate situation at the moment. i would lovelovelove to get a job and help but i can&apos;t because&lt;br /&gt;a) i&apos;d have no way to get there.&lt;br /&gt;&amp; b) my siblings &amp; i are now a part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://k12.com&quot;&gt;K12&apos;s SC Virtual Charter School&lt;/a&gt;, and since my mom is working at least twelve hours a day, six days a week, and my dad is irresponsible, anti-school, anti-social and a douchebag, i&apos;m in charge of schooltime. everyone has about six hours worth of work per day, and Kai &amp; Mani need someone to sit with them through at least half of their lessons. &lt;br /&gt;which means that i don&apos;t have time for a job because i&apos;m already a teacher &amp; a student. just not getting paid for it. &lt;br /&gt;kjhfdkljhlsakdilujdfildskjsdkjskghkjs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mommy and daddy broke up, like, ten years ago.&lt;br /&gt;and daddy&apos;s still not over it. &lt;br /&gt;because, according to him, he never did anything wrong. &lt;br /&gt;he&apos;s honestly perfect and mommy left for no reason. &lt;br /&gt;this is obviously not true because&lt;br /&gt;a) no one is perfect. &lt;br /&gt;b) he has serious flaws. they&apos;re not even flaws, they&apos;re psychological problems, and i believe he really needs help. &lt;br /&gt;they broke up because he&apos;s anti-social, controlling and &lt;i&gt;selfish&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;she had a mild heartattack in the house and he left her on the floor. &lt;br /&gt;when she went to into labor fifteen years ago, about to have Micah, he wouldn&apos;t take her to the hospital because he wanted to deliver the baby. &lt;br /&gt;but he has no medical experience. &lt;br /&gt;she ended up having him in the car. i remember because i was in the backseat. and then he still didn&apos;t take her to the hospital.&lt;br /&gt;(also, they were really young when they married. i think they should have waited a few more years. their religion was the main thing keeping them together, and when they left it, they fell apart.) &lt;br /&gt;he hates mommy more than he loves my brothers, my sister and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;see, my youngest brother, Mani, has a different father. his name is Emile, but Micah, Kai &amp; i have always called him Angel.&lt;br /&gt;mommy met Angel just after daddy and her broke up. &lt;br /&gt;for whatever reason, daddy accepts Mani as if he&apos;s really his father. which is a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; good thing, because Angel = ten times worse than my dad, in that he doesn&apos;t even try. &lt;br /&gt;mommy and Angel broke up because Angel was physically abusive, and then he started using crack.&lt;br /&gt;he actually kidnapped my mom for a few days and sexually molested me, among other things. &lt;br /&gt;so after that we ended up in a shelter for battered women.&lt;br /&gt;and my dad? befriends him.&lt;br /&gt;to hurt mommy, of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;two years later, my mom moves in with this guy, Big John (because we called his son Little John, lolz).&lt;br /&gt;who was even worse than Angel, in that he was an altogether terrible person.&lt;br /&gt;he broke my mom&apos;s tail bone, he threw me out of a chair, he shook Mani, he punched his own son, among &lt;b&gt;many, many&lt;/b&gt; other things. &lt;br /&gt;he was the reason i almost killed myself two or three times. &lt;br /&gt;he was the reason i ran away from home. &lt;br /&gt;he was the reason i started starving myself (because i was too scared of pain to actually cut myself).&lt;br /&gt;it took me about two years to get over the one year we lived with him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;finally&lt;/i&gt;, we get rid of him. he goes to jail and then he moves back to California.&lt;br /&gt;and my dad? befriends him, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now, just a month ago, we moved in with some friends of mommy&apos;s, Greta &amp; Harvey &amp; their two daughters. &lt;br /&gt;i mentioned that much.&lt;br /&gt;the charter school my siblings &amp; i are enrolled in sent us computers and printers and things, because the whole thing is online. &lt;br /&gt;Greta ended up stealing the computers &amp; accessories. &lt;br /&gt;she told my mom that she took them to a pawn shop, and got $200 for it all, to try to pay her $1,000 electricity bill (which we had nothing to do with, anyway). &lt;br /&gt;which isn&apos;t likely because, not only did the bill remain unpaid, but those things were worth about $2,000, and they were brand new.&lt;br /&gt;the night she stole the computers, she got drunk and locked my mom out of the house for a while.&lt;br /&gt;needless to say, we left. &lt;br /&gt;and my dad might be befriending her, too.&lt;br /&gt;Greta told daddy that she has no idea what happened to the computers. &lt;br /&gt;and, of course, he&apos;ll believe her before he believes me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;daddy refuses to even &lt;i&gt;talk&lt;/i&gt; to mommy, and has for the past few years.&lt;br /&gt;a few weeks ago she came over here to help us with schoolwork, and he later told me &quot;i&apos;m going to have to get a restraining order on her.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;wtf?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mommy is one of the nicest people alive.&lt;br /&gt;i mentioned before that she has leukemia (and, like three thousand other serious health issues). &lt;br /&gt;she&apos;s in remission now.&lt;br /&gt;the reason we moved from the trailer we&apos;ve been living in for the last two years or so is that the landlady = shit. &lt;br /&gt;all of the piping in the house needs to be redone, which she refuses to do. meanwhile there is so much mold growing in the house, that everyone was getting a little sickly whenever we stayed there. except mommy, who always had to go to the hospital afterwards. &lt;br /&gt;the electricity in half of the house randomly shuts off.&lt;br /&gt;and almost everyone who lives in that area is stupid, nosy and/or racist. &lt;br /&gt;so we left about two months ago. &lt;br /&gt;the landlady is still emailing my mom, telling here we still need to clean the house and pay the last two months&apos; rent. &lt;br /&gt;fucking no.&lt;br /&gt;so mommy just got a job that she &lt;i&gt;loves&lt;/i&gt; and that will pay really well in a few weeks.&lt;br /&gt;we just have to hold on until then.&lt;br /&gt;right now, she&apos;s working forever, and we&apos;re staying with nanna in an apartment for seniors. which is only good because it&apos;s downtown and i&apos;m enjoying city life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carousel is still back at the old house. neighbors are feeding her. &lt;br /&gt;i saw her for the first time in forever last Friday night, and her fur is so thick and awesome and she&apos;s pregnant and as precious as ever. &lt;br /&gt;i miss her to death. &lt;br /&gt;i don&apos;t know if anyone remembers Alshuro and Brownie Cocoa, my dogs. &lt;br /&gt;but daddy got rid of them last week.&lt;br /&gt;he says he called an animal shelter.&lt;br /&gt;but the few times i&apos;ve been in touch with animal shelters (when we found a baby pigeon &amp; when we found a baby flying squirrel, etc), they said we&apos;d have to bring the animals to them. &lt;br /&gt;so, i&apos;m really scared they&apos;re in a terrible place.&lt;br /&gt;we were kind of bad dog owners, but i want to get them back and make it better, because i love them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on top of all of these horrid things my daddy has done, are the little things. &lt;br /&gt;like telling me my feelings aren&apos;t important. &lt;br /&gt;like ignoring me.&lt;br /&gt;like insisting he knows me better than i know myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;beyond all of this, i feel very old in a nice way. and i&apos;m generally happier than i&apos;ve been at any point during the last ten or eleven years.&lt;br /&gt;because, as much as it pains me to say it this way, i know who i am and i know where i&apos;m going. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so, when i say &lt;i&gt;as soon as mommy gets a home and i get a job, i&apos;m not interested in seeing my dad ever again&lt;/i&gt; i fucking mean it.&lt;br /&gt;for the last two years or so, i&apos;ve only been coming here because he&apos;s my source of money and transportation, but i&apos;m old enough to change that now, and i will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i hate him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but beyond all of that, i kind of love my life right now. &lt;br /&gt;i&apos;m awesome. music&apos;s awesome. Michael&apos;s awesome. the sky was grey all day today. autumn&apos;s coming.&lt;br /&gt;ljdlkslklkjalkhslklkjhal;ha;lhfl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;hearts;</description>
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  <lj:music>&quot;goodbye silhouette&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; Daniel</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">&quot;goodbye silhouette&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; Daniel</media:title>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:08:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;your mouth is open wide, the lover is inside, &amp; all the tumult&apos;s done, collided with the sun.&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://x04.xanga.com/4d2f1a5120031238470210/w188563085.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;palatino linotype&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;8&quot;&gt;friends only.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;please.&lt;br /&gt;unless you seem spectacularly awesome or i already know you, i will not add you back if you don&apos;t comment here. &lt;br /&gt;just say hi.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;hearts;</description>
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  <category>tvotr = god</category>
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  <lj:music>&quot;staring at the sun&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; TV On the Radio</lj:music>
  <media:title type="plain">&quot;staring at the sun&quot; &amp;hearts; ;; TV On the Radio</media:title>
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