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I change the world, the world changes me.

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No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them ...more

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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again," I say, cheerily. "It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great ha...more

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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with t...more

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I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

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I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but th...more

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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

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Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

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A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail an...more

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One day, as Sarita tended to the wash, Gemma played in the garden. She was a knight, you see, with a sword fashioned out of wood. Most formidable, she...more

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She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

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Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in ...more

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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.

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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-""The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad."If the w...more