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Hypothermia

September 4, 2010
By MorbidFixation BRONZE, Stacyville, Iowa
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Being with you-

your eyes,


your laugh,



your smile,
was too hot to handle

then one day, when you kissed me I knew,
not what you mean to me, but what I want to mean to you

And now, without you,
I'm never warm.

© Emma J., Tuck, GA

The author's comments:
My then-boyfriend would radiate heat so much that even when it was freexing out, I'd be okay when I sat by him. When it was hot, being with him intensified it. Eventually, my body adjusted, and it got so without him, I was always cold. It didn't matter how heavy my sweatshirt was or how many blankets I had...my blood was cold. I needed him: his warmth and the way that being with him made me feel. Five days after I wrote this, we broke up after barely six months. Soon it will be a month since our breakup, and I still wear sweatshirts when it's 80 degrees.
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