Heroes
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She pulls together all of the strength that she didn’t know she had. She piles it like the leaves beneath the trees in fall. She rakes it all into large, heavy-duty garbage bags, hiding her strength away from the world who wants to take it all away. She piles it into her closet, digging up skeletons to make more room, and still she fears that it won’t be able to hide there for long. It’s screaming, like the wind tearing through the small cracks in the frame of her window, or the larger cracks that are opening within her soul.