Writing Exercise
You under the winter sun
Your hair looked like it didn’t have any tangles in them as your curls bounced from the east to the west. They were voluptuous and thick as if they were in ultra high resolution. Your skin looked cold and had a flush of pink on your cheeks and nose as if you had been sun kissed by the brightness of the icy snow. Your eyes looked as if they were full of glitter. They looked painfully condensed and sparkly perhaps from the freezing cold. Winter looks good on you but you don’t look happy during the winter.
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World War III
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