Sounds of the LaunchPad Countdown

I live at the Launch Pad

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I live with people starting out in life, with ambitions and dreams and no matching chairs.

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I live with happy empty cereal boxes and looming rent payments. I live with three flights of stairs dusty welcome mats.

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I live with lover's spats. I live with Skype dates and first dates. I live with over populated couches. I live with a decorative cluster of wine bottles on the countertop.

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I live with friendship. I live with loyalty. I live with boys who size up all ex-boyfriends and girls who buy flowers for the boy's out of town girlfriends.

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I live on a precipice. On the edge of life. In between chapters. I live at the Launch Pad, rocketing forward.

From the familiar

Into the darkness

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