To those I love most dearly.

The people who are in my life today are the people who I would give up my freedom for. My people are my family, they are painters, and laughers, and sidewalk crack jumpers. They are loud and unruly and very often inappropriate. They have minds that are open and curious and they give their love like a child. My people are all colors and ages and sizes but all of them are lovers. They love being happy and they love making other people happy, they carry people's secrets in tight lipped mouths, and carry people burdens in their pockets along with heads up pennies for goodluck. My people are beautiful because they care about other people, they support people and they fight for people. I try very hard every day to be more like my people because my people are inherently good. I only have a few people nowadays that I truly call my own. The others around are a variety of awful, but there are those few who accept people for who they are, who don't go back on a promise and who know when a person is no good for them. Those people are the ones I put faith into to change the world, to talk a person off of a ledge, and to make a person feel that they matter. If you are my person I hope you know how dearly I love you. I am better because of you, and I hope in some way you have become better by knowing me. Here is to the people who see and love beautiful things. 

I love you 

-J

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