><h3>*Breathe in to breathe out...*</h3>

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Erika Craig

>*She was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. A sea that had drowned many before her.*
>*― Robert Jordan (Inspired by)*

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Unknown 

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>*She was drowning*
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 Adrian D. Borda

>*But the ocean was trying to show her. It whispered....*

>*“You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will only be as real as you think it to be.”*

>*― Robert M. Drake*

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Zena Holloway

>*“if*
>*the ocean*
>*can calm itself,* 
>*so can you.*
>*we* 
>*are both*
>*salt water*
>*mixed with*
>*air.”*
>*― Nayyirah Waheed*

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Claudia Legge

>*...you are just as dynamic,*

>*For “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.”*
>*― Joy N. Hensley*

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Eric Zener

>*It was clear now...*

>*She was submerged in chains, but her will was stronger.*

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 Linnea Strid

>*"She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom."*
―The Scarlet Letter

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Brianne William

>*When she emerged, she emerged a new woman...with a new understanding.* 

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Eric Zener


>*For that day "the ocean taught her how to drown in all things bigger than herself, the ocean loved her and knew everything that made her, and every time she walked to the shore, she smiled at the ocean because the waves told her story."*
>*― R.M Drake*



>*The End*
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