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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at m...more

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I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

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It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.

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We’ll take up where we left off, Esther’, she had said, with her sweet martyr’s smile. ‘We’ll act as if all this were a bad dream.’ A bad dream. To th...more

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Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

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I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding...more

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I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.