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For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to have a story to tell. I’m not the most outgoing person, so I’m not sure who I wanted to tell, exactly, but I wanted to have a story worth sharing. I didn’t want to be like the characters in the books I escaped into—I didn’t…
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i grew up close to the coast; while the area and its people are known for being beach-centric, i was not. in fact, there was a time i hated the beach. my earliest source of dislike was beach sand itself. the sand would get in places it just shouldn’t be. specifically, i hated the granules…
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only sometimes, i wonder what it’d feel like to live on the other side of fear. on the other side of restraint. on the other side of caution. what would it feel like to not think about the mess to be cleaned up or the tasks to get caught up or the screams to explain…
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a long time ago, a supervisor told me that people are the most unpredictable product. but humans are creatures of habit, i’d proudly retorted. he ignored me, and explained why data on patterns and trends matters so much. because, while the behavior might look different person to person or maybe even over time in the…
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i often ask myself, “why am i like this?” but rarely seek an answer. sometimes it’s in jest because i’m doing something utterly ridiculous at worst and mildly illogical at best. sometimes it’s because someone else has asked the question and i’ve repeated it, earnestly wondering why i am the way i am. other times,…
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let down your rain and release the lightning. may the winds blow til the trees bend toward their beginning. heap it all on the ground below. i am there: the seed forgotten deep inside earth. the one who contorted to find comfort in spaces built for me not to fit. but to limit. to stunt.…
bloom + flow 