When I hugged her there, it was the first time I’d really meant it. I wondered if she’d noticed. We walked to the farthest edge of the orchard, where the noise of the crowds was overtaken by the wind.
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Give away power, it’s tough to reclaim. Perhaps I knew this all along, but I still washed his dirty underwear — from the beginning, before children, even when I earned more money than him.
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Cigarette smoke rose, adding to the cloud that had yet to dissipate, lingering just above your head. The stripes on the sitting room curtains appeared distorted through that filter.
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The ocean calls me. I feel its wild call every morning when I rise. The anticipation of a new sunrise
awakens my soul and my body knows that I must get near the water.
Strong-willed little girl, I want you to know there is something very special that is happening to you right now, but the grown-ups around you just don’t see the beauty of the fire growing inside you...at least not yet.
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But, again, her daughter’s soul could not be confined to her mother’s desires.
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God isn’t something to worship, but something to experience.
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If someone wants out, we can’t beg them to stay, even if it means a light permanently dims with their departure.
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I grew up a perfectionist. An overachiever. Demanding myself to be better, no matter how good I already was.
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My lizard brain instincts told me something was off about him, and I have come to trust my instincts as a woman.
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My mom's reaction to my diagnoses are typical of her, she accepts them but refuses to believe that there isn't hope.
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I was taught to tense up my body and pretend to be invisible.
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Take a risk. Swipe right. Let your heart beat faster as you wait.
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Since the kickoff of #MeToo, I’ve noticed that progressive men are very quick to bring it up.
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We’d been friends for approximately twelve hours.
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No one warned me about the bone chips. I cried and cried for those pieces of you.
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Life is not perfect; why should I expect myself to be?
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Dear Body of Mine, I owe you an apology. I have not liked you.
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From the time I was a child, able to attend school and what not, I felt discrimination.
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When I first got caught in the chaos of addiction, I found it easy to rationalize my behavior.
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