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Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

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Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happ…

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Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

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You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

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Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal…

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I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

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Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

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You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.

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When you have nothing to say, set something on fire.

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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

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