My life is a dark room. One big dark room...
Hey, I'm Rachel.. I'm a 21 year old newlywed aspiring photographer who lives in Somerville.. I lived in the same house in braintree for the first 20 and a half years of my life.. so it's nice to have some change. I'm married to the most amazing woman on the planet -- Jenn, she is everything I could ever want and more. She is the most caring and supportive person I've ever met and I don't know what I'd do without her. I'm so lucky to be so in love, baby you're my everything. I'm a huge movie/music fan. I love AFI, they've been my favorite band for quite some time now.. but I love all music really. I love animals, especially wild or exotic, I really love zoos cause it's the closest I can get to such magnificent creatures without traveling far. I like to drink juice, wear long shorts, go to concerts, play guitar hero, and read Harry Potter. I'm very much a homebody, I'm quite content with just hanging around with my wife in our apartment, though I can get a little stir crazy at times. I love christmas a lot, it's my favorite time of the year, and I tend to start celebrating before most people, I love the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".. Jimmy Stewart is my hero. My favorite animal is a bear, more specifically the polar bear, I want one really bad.. though it isn't exactly possible.. I'd like to live in Alaska for a while.. it's really beautiful there.. I really wanna move to Washington D.C. as well.. I love that city, I've only been twice but would love to go back. If I could play any instrument it would be the violin. I really want to go bowling, ice skating, sky diving, white water rafting and have brunch in a hot air balloon.
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We held hands on the last night on earth. Our mouths filled with dust, we kissed in the fields under the trees, screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves. It was empty on the edge of town but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river. So we walked through the waste where the road curved into the sea and the shattered seasons lay, and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease. In our cancer of passion you said, "Death is a midnight runner." The sky had come crashing down like the news of an intimate suicide. We picked up the shards and formed them into shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress. The echoes of the past broke the hearts of the unborn as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop. The few insects skittered away in hopes of a better pastime. I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked if you would accompany me in a quick fall, but you made me realize that my ticket wasn't good for two. I rode alone. You said, "The cinders are falling like snow." There is poetry in despair, and we sang with unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence. Of blue and grey. Strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved our names in the flesh of the city. The sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of curves and lines. Still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly outward, and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation scratched into the earth like a message.
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"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling
"Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid... and those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy." - J.K. Rowling