And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- This it is, and nothing more.
If you are a twin, you watch yourself live two lives__ours and hers. It__ constant comparison. I am never as good as the bad I wanted her to be. I was the only soldier I needed. We couldn__ haven known what splitting would mean. Time speeds past fast, scattering like shrapnel, and is quiet as cobwebs. We wait for the ambush. Sister will find out first; she__l be my living memory. She will be the body left standing.
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If you are a twin, you watch yourself live two lives__ours and hers. It__ constant comparison. I am never as good as the bad I wanted her to be. I was the only soldier I needed. We couldn__ haven known what splitting would mean. Time speeds past fast, scattering like shrapnel, and is quiet as cobwebs. We wait for the ambush. Sister will find out first; she__l be my living memory. She will be the body left standing.
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