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My Greatest Fear Is That I’m Ordinary
That one day I’ll wake up and discover I’m average. That nothing stands out about me. That I have no discerning qualities, no noteworthy characteristics, that nothing within me thirsts for more. That...
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My Love As A Constellation
NASA I’ve known love, and I’ve known loss. I’ve known love that held me into a purple morning, a lover’s lips whispering warm secrets into my neck’s half-moon. I’ve known love that left my heart raw...
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The Brave Aren’t Strong Because They Don’t Feel Pain
I used to think being brave meant you were immune to pain. Or maybe not immunebut far too strong to regard it. Far too powerful to let it get in your way. I believed that the strong were walls of rock,...
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A Friend Died, And I Had No Idea
I found out from her mother. From her mother’s email. The one requesting photographs of our time together one summer long ago in London. She asked if I had memories I’d be willing to share. She said...
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I Want To Make A Bad Decision
I want to make a bad decision. I want to walk into a fire, drive too fast on a curvy mountain, drink more after the world begins to blur. I want to jump and not think about the way down, swim too deep...
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The Life We Never Lived
Did you know that because of you there are places I can’t go, music I can’t listen to, people I can’t know? The memories of us are dusty now and every so often, I enter the dimly lit past to clean them...
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My Biggest Mistake Was Listening To You
I’ve never been like other people. Maybe that’s too grand a statement. Maybe there are too many people in this big loud world for me to be an original. So allow me rephrase. What I mean to say is that...
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I’m Homesick For The Past
Shutterstock I have a place where everything is right. Where the playground is a memory map of the first monkey bars I ever conquered and the slide that left an egg-shaped protrusion on the center of...
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The Only Resolution
New years are supposed to be about fresh starts. About new beginnings and start-overs and impossible possibility. But every year, instead of diving forward into the pool of chance, I find myself...
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I Hope You Think Of Me The Way I Think Of You
image – Unsplash / Caroline Gutman I’m sitting in a minivan in the middle of southeast asia. Next to a boy covered in tiger tattoos and a grandma with no teeth. The heat makes us stick together, makes...
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