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- For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks…
- Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle? Isn't it beautiful?…
- Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond…
- My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.
- So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind…
- In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the…
- Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be…
- It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very…
- But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the…
- I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest.…
- When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and…
- And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a…
- What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and drink coffee from…
- But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual…
- Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it…
- Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being…
- I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesnt deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than…
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