“When I was thirteen, my mom was dying, waiting to be unplugged like a broken tv set, all the color and pictures that once filled her now gone.”

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“Ever since a cop told me that my son looks older than he actually is, I don’t let him walk home from school anymore.”

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“My mother tells me I am a bird, but when she says I am a bird she means the whole world is my cage.”

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“I have a heart the same size as a fist. I didn’t find self-love until I gave myself a beating.”

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“I grew up learning how to protect men who hate me.”

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“I used to be something. Someone wrapped in entirety. I used to be answers, semesters of filled-in bubble sheets.”

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