"Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing."

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I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This manuscript is thematic and organized in a way my poems about my friends aren't. My friends get into the poems simply because they mean a lot to me.

— Ron Padgett