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    Take This Book As You Will
    Take This Book As You Will
    Take This Book As You Will
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    Take This Book As You Will

    By Phillip Magana

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    Where Poems and Prose left off, Take This Book As You Will picks up. Love, loss, hope, joy, love, sex, drinking, anger, pain, manliness, promiscuity, life, death, laughter, and various colorful metaphors and pronouns fill this book. It's my continuous journey into self-therapy that hopefully someone out there can relate to, and find healing in my words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhillip Magana
    Release dateMar 2, 2019
    ISBN9780463942079
    Take This Book As You Will
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    Phillip Magana

    Writer. Father. Mindless adventurer. Team Geek member. The rest are just labels.

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      Take This Book As You Will - Phillip Magana

      Take This Book As

      You Will

      Phillip Magaña

      To the misfists of the world...

      Do You, Be You

      Take This Book As You Will

      Storytime: Nevermore

      Comfort and Contempt

      Fault

      Real Magic

      Us and That

      Strength

      Lesson

      Don't/Quit

      A little Tough Love

      Storytime: Video Game

      Unpredictable

      Feelin' You

      Midnight Sun

      Selfish

      Gravity

      Christina

      Love You

      Closed

      Grateful

      4.29.18

      Not Perfect

      Mami

      Storytime: Blame Game

      Haiku

      Haiku

      Slow Love

      Stagnant

      Word

      Storytime: Peace Be Your Journey

      This Moment

      A Little Love

      Crazy

      As A Man

      Hope

      Sweeter

      Touch

      Got You

      Again

      Lonesome

      Yet

      Someday

      Please

      Package Deal

      9.11.18

      Me

      Hard

      Gamble

      Feels Good

      Please

      Storytime: In my own footsteps

      Challenge

      Hate

      Worth It

      Regrets

      Moments

      Bring it in

      Smile for Me

      Story Past

      Journey On

      Maybe, Someday

      Time

      A Stone Heart

      Muerta

      Wish

      12.26.18

      This is Us

      Dream

      First Kiss

      Tease

      Bliss

      Cricket

      Grow

      Remember

      Shine

      What I've Learned (My Life Quotes)

      Storytime: One Thing

      Storytime: Different

      Storytime: Nevermore

      There was a man who lived by the Sun, but loved by Luna. He would get sad by the waxing and waning of her, and Luna, who shined above in the night, would notice his tears.

      Luna would ask, Why do you cry for me?

      The man answered, You've always been with me, and there are times when the people here on Earth, who are supposed to be closest to me, seem as far away from me as the distance between us.

      Luna spoke: I'll always be with you, no matter what happens in your life. Take comfort in knowing I'll be with you until the end of your days.

      And that was good

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