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Land’s End (opens the original)
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Bright as tinsel (opens the original)
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there are foil gift bags hanging from the old May treethe first thing we see as we pull up the cottage drivetinsel glimmering against the soft surface of the lakemy heartsinging with delightmy bare feet pitter patteras I race to rip open the wrapperand find a tricolour bug catcher insidea bright plastic cage and an in-depth learning guideI quickly rush to collect sticks, flowers, and leavesplucking them from the ground, the garden, the treesI capture a caterpillarshelving him away until it’s tim
Fraught (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI never expected to last this long. Hell, I never expected to make it past twenty-five. No plans laid, no intentions or aims. I didn’t count on still being alive. They say it gets better. I suppose it did. I’m no longer just alive, I want, now, to live. But the world I wake to grows evermore fraught. Famine. Fire. Flood. Streets stained with innocent blood. Borders harden. Humanity thins. Corruption. Deceit. Abject bigotry.
Every day is all there is (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI am not a good cook but I seek to live deliciously. Nor am I particularly stylish, but I refuse to put on an outfit and not recognize a part of myself in it. I want to live life intentionally. Making choices, not simply letting the world happen to me. So I’ve started to learn the techniques: Salt, fat, acid, heat. Started paying attention to things I once overlooked: The drape, the shape, the weight, the feel of my clothes.
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