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by Adeleine Mireles

Young Women’s Leadership Academy

Adeleine is a current highschool student at Young Women’s Leadership Academy in San Antonio. She originally started writing because she heard creative writing was easy, but now writing has developed into something that she has enjoy working meticulously on. It’s now a passion.


I imagine you sat.
You are filled with strangers then emptied again.
And in return for your warmth they filled you with bottles.
They tattooed your bones with paint.
And smashed your frame with trash.
But we love you now.
We cleaned your bones.
And your littered lawn.
We keep you warm.
Now you have a...
Are a home.


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