"Definition," Brooke, ambiguouscarlyinromeNovember 10 2007, 05:29:59 UTC
Brooke was always seriously invested in beauty. She remembers watching her mother at the mirror, remembers sitting at the foot of the vanity watching the perfect application. She remembers smearing on clowns’ worth of her mother's cosmetics, remembers anointing herself with perfume.
She remembers tutus and fairy wings and princess costumes. Bright satin and shining tiaras.
She remembers arguments, and her father telling her that her mother won't be coming home.
And she remembers putting away the tiaras and the fairy wings, far away in the back corner of her closet under her old Sunday school clothes and presents her grandmother sent her that were five years too young for her and books anyway.
Things like that didn’t happen to princesses, so she must be something else.
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There are a lot of things he wishes he could forget. The things he’s done, the people he’s hurt ( ... )
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Thank you.
This is *beautiful*.
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Thank you so much! I'm really pleased you liked it; I was afraid it was a little, er, purple in places.
*loves*
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Brooke was always seriously invested in beauty. She remembers watching her mother at the mirror, remembers sitting at the foot of the vanity watching the perfect application. She remembers smearing on clowns’ worth of her mother's cosmetics, remembers anointing herself with perfume.
She remembers tutus and fairy wings and princess costumes. Bright satin and shining tiaras.
She remembers arguments, and her father telling her that her mother won't be coming home.
And she remembers putting away the tiaras and the fairy wings, far away in the back corner of her closet under her old Sunday school clothes and presents her grandmother sent her that were five years too young for her and books anyway.
Things like that didn’t happen to princesses, so she must be something else.
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She’s dangerous, Darla said, her eyes glinting hotter than the embers Angelus was tending to. And she tries my patience ( ... )
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I wish everyone could read it.
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