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Sticks and stones
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SootyPhoenix PM
Parents lie, all the time. They try to protect yet sometimes the lie becomes unraveled
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Hurt/Comfort - Words: 46 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 01-28-11 - Status: Complete - id: 2886202
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Sticks and stones.

How often did you say?

Words can never hurt.

A lie tohelp,

Cause sometimes;

Words cut like a knife

And scar and tear

At fragile minds

To leave nothing.

It doesn't justify,

To say it won't hurt

Because sometimes it will.

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