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or you can fold it up and hide it deep inside your heart and either way it's yours to have and to hold, but the world won't let you off as easy as that when it can read your body and tell you what you are, tell you where you can go and what you can do. If you hide it, your skin, your body, your very being, the world may let you go, pass for happy but it will erase your past, invalidate all you've ever been and constrain all you'll ever be. It will take away your voice, leave you silent, homeless in your soul but maybe that's a small price to pay for something that looks like freedom |