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    Not Love
    Not Love
    Not Love
    Ebook67 pages10 minutes

    Not Love

    By Marlene Woods

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    What is this unstoppable feeling

    I am unable to control?

    It maddens me

    It pains me

    It invades me

    Causing chaos

    And I’m not able to respond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAustin Macauley
    Release dateFeb 12, 2018
    ISBN9781370469888
    Not Love
    Author

    Marlene Woods

    Marlene started writing poetry in her adolescence. She believes in the cathartic power of poetry. All her experiences throughout her life such as self-love, first love, romance, marriage, and motherhood have expressed in poetry form. Marlene is a wife and mother of three children; a boy and twin girls. She is also a blogger.

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      Not Love - Marlene Woods

      About the Author

      Marlene started writing poetry in her adolescence. She believes in the cathartic power of poetry. All her experiences throughout her life such as self-love, first love, romance, marriage, and motherhood have been expressed in poetry form. Marlene is a wife and mother of three children; a boy and twin girls. She is also a blogger.

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      NOT LOVE

      Published by Austin Macauley at Smashwords

      Copyright 2018 Marlene Woods

      The right of Marlene Woods to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the

      Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All Rights Reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written

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