Sid's Opened Lid Do You Have SOL? Issue 1 June 2014 | Page 25

Cristina Bayne: The Dark Knight Who Rises from her Slumber to Recite a Poem Before Saving a Damsel In Distress

Cristina Bayne is a gypsy college student who goes around making people fall in love with her everywhere she goes. She does not leave them empty-handed when she leaves. She leaves after giving them all the love she has to offer, and in some cases leaves a piece of herself behind, literally. What I mean by this is she places a part of her soul into an inanimate object and gives them as presents to people. The object is almost like a voodoo doll, but without enough SOL for you to take control of her and force to come back to you.

The object I got from the lovely gypsy was a party lamp with a star design . Everytime I've closed the lights, layed down, and watched the stars above flciker on and off at different speeds I could feel her presence laying next to me.

Cristina also shares apart of herself with a few close friends through another medium called writing and poetry. When we approached her about having her work in the magazine she was all for it, but had a problem deciding which pieces to send, and we soon understood why. What we have here are a number of poems by Miss Bayne, who has now come to terms with sharing this part of herself with the world wide public, since upon reviweing her pieces it was hard to choose which ones to exclude.

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