D3 // OSWALD VENUS . CBD2

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BIOGRAPHY

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Mama says the cigarettes and the whisky and the days I don't get back home until morning are acts of rebellion. Personally, I don't think there is anything more free than running through the district with bare feet and a handful of pills in your fist, throat burning, eyes stinging. The Peacekeepers, usually struggle to keep up so long as you know how to leg the fence right. I do. Get with the right crowd and life becomes a whirlwind (a rollercoaster, Mama, and you can't get off until it stops so you might as well smile about it) of broken glass and cheap champagne.

According to Papa, when I was small I acted like the world was mine and it was up to me to protect each one of my younger siblings. Fierce then and fierce always. He says I'm selfish and unreasonable, too. I can almost hear his words - constantly arrogant with a wild and utterly rebellious streak (a cause for absolute despair, boy!)

Lestia says I have a nice smile, and I do. It's more about the way I make sure that even when I'm doing something I hate with a passion I'm wearing it, proud and resolute. It keeps the little ones calm and it reminds me that I'm alright, really. Nothing is spinning out of control, and even if it was I wouldn't care because the thrill is in the fall. It interests me, what everybody else wants. Mama wants us to be richer, and she likes us to pretend like we are. Papa wants to work and work and keep himself from worrying too much about us lot and I just want to make certain that there is air in everybody's lungs and a grin plastered on their cheeks.

When it rains, we dance.

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