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Is this all you are-- |
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A blankly smiling, dull-eyed china doll? |
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Am I only a thoughtless child to you? |
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What if this "thoughtless child" played with her new toy? |
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She isn't very graceful yet, you know. |
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If she should drop you onto the hardwood of her bedroom floor, |
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would you live? |
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Would you crack at that heavily concealed seam, |
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broken but fixable? |
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Or would you entire fragile being shatter |
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into pieces for the toddler to put into her mouth? |
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Would that help the world? |
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