How do you say sorry?

The featured piece this week from one of our young writers has got to be the hippest way to apologize to someone. It’s even in poetry form! I am so in love with this brilliant poem. Maybe asking for forgiveness is painless this way?

Alphabetically

by Jolie, 13 years old

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Am Appropriately (Barely) Conditionally (Disgustingly) Eagerly (Frustratingly) (Grudgingly) (Hatefully) (Inevitably)

Justly (Knavishly) (Loathingly) (Mournfully) (Naughtily) Obediently Potentially (Queasily) (Reluctantly) (Scornfully) (Tastelessly) (Unwillingly) (Vexingly) (Wrathfully) (X-asperatingly) Yearningly Zealously Sorry.

This articled was first published in ManilaSpeak.com on August 8, 2015

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