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The next persona poem is
from the diary of Anne Frank,

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and she was at that time
between being a young woman,

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or being a young girl and then
turning into a young woman,

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having no one to talk to,
so she invented a friend,

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and this friend was
her diary, Kitty.

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And some of the lines
here I've actually

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stolen directly and put
it right in with the poem

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because they're so
wonderfully said.

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Her prose almost
reads like poetry.

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If I had a sister, I would
whisper my sweet secret.

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I can carry life.

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One night I slept
with a girlfriend.

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I told her blushing was like
love disclosing what cannot be

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hidden.

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In this alcove,
writing in my diary,

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Kitty, I envy those girls
who have their own room

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and dream of dances and gowns.

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I am pushed from
corner to corner.

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Already in my longing, I've
given myself too quickly.

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My heart twists around
itself, around a girl

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who hides her thoughts in an
attic, who could soon open up

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like a tulip on the canal.