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Miranda of the Sorrows do you like my ponytail I got it off a real pony who died but I have always been a real literal person things would be easier for me if I didn’t tell the truth so much like my mother said a thousand times Miranda don’t tell the truth so much it will only get you into trouble but I always told her to screw it what did she know about how precious the truth is and she never knew nothing about all the sorrows just because I always tell the truth don’t mean I ain’t understanding see how I wear makeup on only one side of my face that makes me able to understand both sides of every issue but we suffer Lord we all suffer some more than others and I have been chosen to understand the sufferings and will probably live forever which is why I always keep one eye closed so my eyes will last and each one works a four-hour shift it’s only fair sometimes children throw rocks at me but they are mostly feral and sniff paint from spray cans they steal otherwise life on the streets ain’t 15 too bad if you keep your wits about you and don’t have serious bowel problems like I often do that’s the worst if you’re willing to be honest and suffer for others as I am we all suffer Lord some more than others but I was always strong in the legs I dance sometimes to cheer everybody up a kind of belly dance and I lift up my shirt so they can see my belly dancing but that’s all I do because if you take off your clothes they put you in the wagon and take you to a place where everybody is throwing up all over the floor I pray for all of them but it smells bad Lord sometimes it’s hard to suffer once when I was listening to the preacher on the corner a man stopped and asked me if I had a personal savior and I told him there can’t be no personal savior because suffering ain’t personal it’s general and I wanted to talk to him for a long time but he was just passing through the neighborhood the way everybody does since the stores have all gone out of business or to be literal the business has all gone out of the stores we suffer Lord some more than others on the streets where we live nobody is home 16 ...

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