This Bird You Can Not Change

It took years for me to find a place, and though I have changed in some ways, war and just living will do that to you, I was always the same girl who pretended to be a boy with her friends on the second floor of a house, wishing she could get away from a small town to be herself.



Elizabeth has written a very nice post, built around the words of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird