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on being in my 20s, becoming my own friend, loving everything first, and not taking life too seriously
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I ASK MY FRIEND TO NAME THE GOOD THINGS IN THEIR LIFE AND THEY ASK ME THE SAME. (opens the original)
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I live in New York City like I said I would when I was sixteen. The hardest thing I do every day is no longer getting out of bed. I have friends who extend their couches and the other half of their beds to me without a second thought. My new apartment has in-unit laundry and a garden. The Florida summers I endured prepared me for New York summers. I understand what it feels like to cut the air with my body. I ate tomatoes on my sandwich and didn’t hate it. I actually liked them. At a party, a gi
YOU ARE YOUR MOTHER'S DAUGHTER (opens the original)
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Weeks ago, I was going through the digital archives of my writing from high school. I smiled at the teenage version of myself who thought what she was going through was going to be the hardest thing she would ever have to endure. There is a poem I wrote during my senior year of high school where I describe this feeling of pre-grief for my mother. I write about cataloging her belongings and the hope that we would meet somewhere after our earthly lives were over, and in this place, we would finall
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