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At Seventeen
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Céline Dion
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I learned the truth at seventeen
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That love was meant for beauty queens
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And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
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Who married young and then retired
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The Valentines I never knew
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The Friday night charades of youth
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Were spent on one more beautiful
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At seventeen, I learned the truth
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And those of us with ravaged faces
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Lacking in the social graces
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Desperately remained at home
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Inventing lovers on the phone
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Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
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And murmured vague obscenities
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It isn't all it seems, at seventeen
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A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs
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Whose name I never could pronounce
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Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve
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They only get what they deserve"
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The rich-relationed hometown queen
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Marries into what she needs
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With a guarantee of company
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And haven for the elderly
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Remember those who win the game
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Lose the love they sought to gain
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In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
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Their small-town eyes will gape at you
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In dull surprise when payment due
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Exceeds accounts received, at seventeen
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To those of us who knew the pain
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Of Valentines that never came
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And those whose names were never called
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When choosing sides for basketball
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It was long ago and far away
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The world was younger than today
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And dreams were all they gave for free
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To ugly duckling girls like me
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We all play the game and when we dare
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We cheat ourselves at solitaire
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Inventing lovers on the phone
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Repenting other lives unknown
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That call and say, "Come dance with me"
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And murmur vague obscenities
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At ugly girls like me, at seventeen
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