On May 5, 1993 in West Memphis Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys were reported missing. Several search teams and police officers searched the areas around the boys' homes, and anywhere else they might be. Around 1:45 pm the next day, the bodies of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore, were discovered in a drainage canal in Robin Hood Hills, where the boys...

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I get off work from my morning shift at 2:30 and I go back for the afternoon shift at 2:31. Usually, I get off the afternoon shift at 10, and go back for the night shift at 10:01. It's hard work, and it's exhausting. This happens every single day, and I tell no one. I know that telling someone will make me look...

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I want to dance with the warmth in the dark of the night. My troubles float away as I dream. Let me feel the heat as it pulls me in. Walk into the sun, and then I'm gone.  - Allie ...

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"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the...

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There's still so much I haven't done.  So many trips I haven't taken. So many restaurants I haven't experienced. So many friends I haven't made. So many clothes I haven't bought. So many memories I haven't made.  But in the end, will it matter? Will I remember the trips I have taken? Will I remember the restaurants I have experienced? Will I remember...

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How much simpler life would be if only money grew on trees - Allie ...

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Sometimes I sit and stare up toward the sky expecting to see some sort of sign or acknowledgment  that everything will turn out fine But I never do Instead, all I see is the vast emptiness that is the color blue. - Allie ...

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     "Except for that one time when Patty had inquired about my feelings on the subject, I didn't ask myself about whether I enjoyed kissing him. I only knew that doing it conferred on me a worth and social standing unlike anything I'd known. The fact that Teddy Bascom wanted to kiss me at all made me feel important, I told my sister....

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“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent       “The pain will go away eventually,” the doctor assured as he placed the latest X-Ray onto the blank white screen. Bill knew that the man was referring to his wife's painful brain tumor, but he...

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     She tried to sneak past me. I don't think she was aware that I could have heard her coming from a mile away. Even a deaf person couldn't have tuned out that racket. There were sniffling noses and stomping feet, which belonged to the person who was once my best friend, and the man who I blamed for ruining my life. I...

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