  Well,  its been a while since my last post. nbsp;  Not that I have been busy and& nbsp;
haven't had time,  believe me,  that's not the case.
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 So&
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I bought the Ashlee Simpson CD ( insert forehead scrunch here)
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 I know,  I know,  seems adolescent,  but shoot,  I'm allowed to have those moments.
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 I'm&
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at that inbetween stage where I'm too&
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old to&
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wear Wet Seal clothes,  and too&
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young for Ann Taylor.
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 So I'm gonna go with feeling young,  rather than old,  if that's alright.
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 I liked the single " Pieces of Me"  I heard on the radio,  and I must admit I watched the show and decided it would be a worthy purchase.
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 Come on,  you know you watch it too,  and you like it!
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 So suprisingly enough,  the CD is actually pretty good.
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 A lot of the time I find myself judging my liking of&
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a CD by how much I can relate the lyrics to my own&
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life.
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 So this is my problem. I'm not sure if it is OK for me to be feeling the same feelings as a 19 year old rich girl when I am almost 24 and severely lacking in abundant funds ( though I somehow managed to scrape up $ 10. 99 for the CD)
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I've also had&
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the same issues with relating to Avril Lavinge songs,
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 but you know what I have come to realize?
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 Everyone in this world&
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shares the commonality of that one special feeling.
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It doesn't&
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matter how young or old,  how rich or how poor.
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 It starts with that middle school crush,
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continues through&
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a golden anniversary.
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 That one special person who makes our heart melt,  who knows us better than we know ourselves,
 and wants to be there to pick us up when we fall.
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 We all yearn to find that person and&
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feel the big " L"
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 We can all relate to songs about wanting,  loving,  hurting -  the basic structure of almost every song ever written,  no matter the time period.
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 It's an age old practice that keeps us going,  wanting,  loving,  and is worth the hurting.
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 We live in a world that&
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seems to be&
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surrounded by the&
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feeling,
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yet why is it ironically so hard to find?
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 I think maybe we try too hard,
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or when it's there we overlook it or get scared and turn and run the other way.  Open up your eyes Don't you know you only get one life.  All you gotta do Is just Surrender -
Ashlee Simpson 
