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The Girl Who’s Trying (Aviana Hart)

Melted honey eyes, pepper freckles, desert sun hair

That’s not what anyone sees, not the first time.

No, we see the timid smile

Of a girl who is trying to give the world a vast group hug, even if no one taught her how.

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