The fire that ate my childhood

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The way you said those words made it seem you believe they would actually help, as if a few words could cover my eyes from the truth, like I didn't see the marks on your arm from where your little injections of heaven dug their roots in deeper. Each spot symbolizing each time a piece of your soul was torn away and another shred of my childhood was burned in a fire that never even kept you warm.

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