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Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls


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I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.



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So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.



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In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.



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